Wow, what does it mean when one gets one’s own spam blog? Sadly, it’s no measure of success. How & why did this happen? I was doing a (surprisingly) infrequent google search on my own name. I was momentarily surprised to see that lots of my comments on folks’ blogs are getting pretty high results, then I thought, well DUH! I’m using my real name everywhere these days, and the searchbots have noticed. (Results pointing to this blog appear late — gotta work on that.) I was surprised, though, to discover this on page 6 of the Google search results:
Small naughty Julie? Heh. So I click the link, of course, and find that I have my very own spam blog (splog). Obviously there’s some spider out there scraping search results and auto-creating WordPress blogs. I get that. But why Julie Gomoll? It’s not like I’m some popular search term. Did they scrape new blog registrations, perhaps?
It’s a pretty lame page, of course. (click to enlarge) It features a weird mix of search results, including one that refers to the night Julie Phillips spoke at my sister, Jeanne Gomoll’s house. Theres an odd, but very tasteful and pretty picture of a woman kissing the cheek of another woman near the bottom of the page.
I’m not particularly pissed off about this… it just seems odd. There are no ads, so what’s the point of this page? Well, at the very bottom, there’s a little splog logo/button. It links to a page I won’t link to here… let’s just say it has “spylog” in the url. Thankfully, I’m on a Mac and could explore the link without worry. There’s nothing there, of course, they’re just trying to harvest information. Sad. Kind of weird that thay actually use “splog” in the button, don’t you think? Do you have a splog?
