I was amused, and somewhat perplexed, to read on BuzzMachine yesterday about a bizarre splog—spam blog to the rest of us—which copies text and then converts it to synonyms. Jeff explains:
New splog tricks
In my ego searches, I just saw a splog that copied text of mine but ran it through ridiculous almost-synonym replacements. I’m assuming this is done to fool Google into thinking it is original content and perhaps to fool the text cops folks like the AP hire.
I still can’t quite work out what the function of this is. But I did come across another one on one of my own ego searches. It took me a bit of time to figure out where it came from. (It’s from Betsy Weber’s blog.)
Here’s the splog text, with the original in italics first. My questions:
- How the hell does group become “Washington entranceway”?
- and member become “sorority girl”?
- I kind of like the fact that loose wire blog has become “Unfixed Twist Blog” and the WSJ has become the “Commodity Exchange Annual”;
- But somehow which you can see here became “which her philander play against hither”.
- And the last two paragraphs are so full of weirdness I don’t know where to start.
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So could someone explain the point of these? There are no ads on the page—it’s a WordPress.com blog, so there can’t be. And, more importantly, what kind of synonym engine are these guys using?
I’m off to register unfixedtwist.com and, while I’m at it, numberoneknit.com.
No wonder we have millions of blogs on the Internet 🙂
I don’t see any incentives here except that sploggers just want to add to the existing clutter and also break blog search engines in the process.
Looks like they ran it through a translation system and back again (that used to be a funny game…).
Probably, the reason is to make people click on the link – did you check what kind of malware it downloads?
Namedropping. That is another reason. Someone searching for these famous people will be lead to this page. It could be a reason to get readers to a blog in a different language (you do not mention if there is one), if they are not proficient in English. I guess enough people are non-native English speakers, and have problems with the Roman alphabet, that this might just look like a plausible piece of text. They may then want to look up the Thai or whatever page which linked to it.
Still does not explain why they choose your blog to start with, though. Maybe a randomizer?
Hope this helps
//Johan