Google Docs Being Used for Spam

The pics and the title say it all.

Google docs used as spam evidence 2 Some of you might have encountered these before. I was introduced to these pests through comment spam, which unfortunately wasn’t blocked by Wordpress’ Akismet. Luckily I’ve always enabled comment moderation for all my blogs. Curiously, only my main site has received this kind of spam.

Had similar experiences, anyone?

Update: I’ve found a similar post with the same title by David Kirk, and he thinks this has something to do with PR and SEO.

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4 Responses to “Google Docs Being Used for Spam”

Davak Says:
February 9th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Thanks for the link. Please note after I posted the article that you referenced, google stopped spidering docs.google content as well. You can see that updated post here:

http://blogs.tech-recipes.com/davak/2007/01/31/google-blocks-spidering-of-docsgooglecom/
Corsarius Says:
February 9th, 2007 at 1:50 am
Hi David, thanks for dropping by. That’s good news — chalk up one for the good guys in the fight against spammers I’d say your post made a difference. Kudos!
Fleeb Says:
February 13th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Hello, OT: I am trying to get into the engg dept website of UPD but I can’t. Just checking some information possibility of going to school.
Corsarius Says:
February 14th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Hi, Fleeb, you might enter UP DCS? That’s nice to hear! You’re just in time for the new CS building, hehe. Unfortunately, our Engg site is quite prone to downage, even a few years ago. The UPD site looks ok, so it might be a problem with the Engg server, again