David Sifry’s latest quarterly State of the Blogosphere report has some comments on splogs:

“What we have found, after lots of analysis and spam elimination, is that we see about 8% of new blogs that get past our filters and make it into the index, even if it is only for a few hours or days.”
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“About 70% of the pings Technorati receives are from known spam sources, for example, but we’re able to drop them before we even send out a spider to go and index the splog.”

This matches our own figures, although the splogs that go unrecognized contribute more than their share of posts. One reason why there are so many splog pings (spings) is that many splogs post every hour or even every five minutes. Apparently, splogger greed knows no bound.

Other highpoints from his excellant and useful report are:

• The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.
• The blogosphere is currently doubling in size every 200 days. This is somewhat slower than past growth rates.
• As of July 2006, about 175,000 new weblogs were created each day.
• The total posting volume is up to ~1.6M postings per day, about double that of a year ago.

Related posts: • Sifry’s state of the blogosphere;  • State of the blogosphere;  • Sifry’s state of the Blogosphere, part 2;  

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