MS Research Automates Search Engine Spam Hunt

Barbie Dollar writes "Researchers at Microsoft are working on an ambitious new project to hunt down and neutralize large-scale search engine spammers. The project, called Strider Search Defender, automates the discovery of search spammers through non-content analysis. The project integrates technology from two previous Microsoft Research prototypes (Strider HoneyMonkey and Strider URL Tracer) and promises a new approach to removing junk results from search engine queries."

Non-content based comment spam prevention

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Microsoft forgot to mention my non-content based method of blocking comment spam entirely known as Bad Behavior [homelandstupidity.us]. And now that they seem to have swiped a few of my ideas, I'm going to have to go see what they're up to...