SEO Files > Google Setting Up Spam Barriers
[ SEO Black Hat] Today we are posting a revised version of the word verification system we released yesterday. With this version we have resolved a number of the problems from the initial launch - the most important of which was the inability of some users to solve the CAPTCHAs presented.
Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[Searchenginejournal.com] Search Engine Journal » Google Addresses Blogger Splog Spam Blog Issue: It’s important to know that if you are prompted to solve the CAPTCHA, it doesn’t mean that there is anything wrong with your blog. Because of the number of variables our classifier uses, there’s no easy way for us to pinpoint why your blog may have tripped the word verification (publicizing this information also serves to defeat the classifier).
[Webpronews.com] Blogger Captchas Round Two Versus Comment Spam: The word verification feature, captcha, has been made available for blogs on the site. It is turned off by default, but it seems likely anyone affected by spammers dumping spam comments in blogs will be hitting the 'enable' button in a hurry.
[Threadwatch.org] Threadwatch.org - Search & SEO/SEM: http://www.threadwatch.org/node/4268 <p>General chatter recently suggested that Google was updating - as of yesterday a significant algo change hit the SERPs. A lot of SEO's and seo-savvy webmasters are reporting significant loss of rankings and traffic for their own and client sites, and typically there are complaints about irrelevant rankings.</p>
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