Spam chongqing

I just found some very interesting stuff on Spam Huntress' wiki. Marco seems to have to have a pretty good solution to referrer and trackback lists becoming unusable again. By using some Javascript he can tell which ones are legitimate visitors and not bots. At least for now, most of these bots don't handle Javascript.

See his posts:
Trackback Spam Eliminated
Bye bye referrer spammers (2-1)

But these solutions aren't able to prevent the spammy referrers and trackbacks in the first place so it still doesn't solve the problem of spammers wasting your bandwidth. And it wouldn't be too hard for spammers to work around this, it would likely be less automated, but if this prevention method becomes prevelant they likely will try it.

It seems Marco currently has a low opinion of Google: Google doesn't give a shit. I have to agree they don't seem to be solving the problem. But they do try, they are just a little misguided and slow. But compare what they are doing to other search engines. I don't know how the other search engines are planning on surviving if they don't do more to fight spamdexing. Google may be full of spam, but there is only so much they can do when spammers have filled up so much of the internet with their garbage.