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Bookmark spam
Bookmark spam is a type of
spam affecting
social bookmarking, social software websites such as del.icio.us.
Mainly affecting the website in a
Spamdexing
attack, impacting on which links are popular or recent. They also trying to
attack Google
pagerank
similar to
spam blog attacks.
To stop the pagerank influencing problem, del.icio.us was forced to block the
google search bot from indexing its links
[1]
"One user tried to abuse
[2] to push the google ranking of some business sites. So, the homepage
doesn't show links of ********* anymore" -the editor of one website
Link spam
is currently a problem in
del.icio.us/popular as there is no way to trust users and fake users can
easily be created thus putting spam links in the most popular URLs.
External links
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