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According to Akismet, 90% of all blog comments are spam.
The Live Spam Zeitgeist says:
Totals
Total spam: 39,640,978
Total ham: 4,167,699
Today (UTC, 17 hours left)
Spam today: 643,205
Ham today: 10,528
And here’s the reason why we’re getting a barrage of comment/trackback spam lately.
Google should buy Akismet. :p
Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.
So that’s why spam TBs were getting through. Hmmm…I wonder what would happen if Google indeed buys Akismet?