Yahoo MyWeb having problems with Spam Tags


	Yahoo MyWeb having problems with Spam Tags

egoldstein

7-7-2005 12:02 PM

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yahoo, my web, tags, spam, steve rubel, search

egoldstein says:

Steve Rubel points out that people are spamming Yahoo's MyWeb with bad tags

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<P>In a <A href="http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000130.html">little more than a week</A> since it launched, <A href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/default?.done=http:%2F%2Fmyweb2.search.yahoo.com%2F?ei=UTF-8%26.scrumb=0">Yahoo's MyWeb 2.0</A> social search engine has already become a haven for tag spam. A closer examination of <A href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myweb?dg=6&amp;dmode=vtags">the most popular tags</A> reveals that <A href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myweb?ei=UTF-8&amp;dg=6&amp;tag=crapware">crapware</A>, <A href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myweb?ei=UTF-8&amp;dg=6&amp;tag=nhw:bad+crapware">nhw: bad crapware</A>, <A href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myweb?ei=UTF-8&amp;dg=6&amp;tag=nhw:bad">nhw: bad</A> and <A href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myweb?ei=UTF-8&amp;dg=6&amp;tag=nhw:dangerous">nhw: dangerous</A> are among the leaders of the nearly 34,000 pages filed away and categorized on MyWeb 2.0. Each of these tags is filled with link spam. This provide a stark contrast to <A href="http://del.icio.us/tag/">the most popular tags on del.icio.us</A>. More fodder for <A href="http://ysearchblog.com/myweb/archives/000142.html">the skeptics out there</A>. I hope Yahoo can remedy this fast because it's a pretty promising tool, although it still needs some work.<SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><BR><BR></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/126C4966-8665-4D0B-9395-C27A70506C03/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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