It was only a few weeks ago when I reported on the difficulty I had trying to find something in a past blog due to a number of 'spam blogs' - blogs specially designed to return results and get people to click on links. I postulated at the time that is was probably due to people trying to increase page rank and get clicks to earn referrals.

Apparently these are compararitvely new, and obviously designed to cash in on the explosion of people reading feeds.

The term for these? Splogs.

The problem is that the content on these splogs interferes with all the real content on the Internet and if I can find it on simple searches like 'linux terminal server schools' others are going to find splogs on other seemingly innocuous search terms.