Spings

Sifry noted that the number of spam and fake pings--"spings"--has also increased, and that it was working with the likes of Amazon, Time Warner's AOL, Ask Jeeves, EricSchmidt'sEric Schmidt's Google, Microsoft's MSN and Yahoo to squish the spam blogs. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Micropersuasion reports the hijacking of the ping-o-sphere: According to a study performed at UMBC eBiquity Research Group at the University of Maryland, nearly three out of every four pings to blog ping servers are from splogs - or what they're calling spings! ❋ Unknown (2005)

I would imagine that the trout fishing is good even in the warmer months because of the melting snowfields and cold spings that feed it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Again IMHO alone, genuine BDSM orientation spings from a deep hostility towards and/or fear of the opposite sex during this time - which the accepted, admired, good-looking boys and girls of this world don't have. ❋ Juliette (2008)

That said – hope spings eternal and I am going to try to make the chickpea salad he had in the NYT this week. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated ❋ Ben Barren (2006)

There has been an increase in the overall noise level in the blogosphere, most notably in the number of spam and fake pings that are sent – what I call “spings”. ❋ Unknown (2006)

# Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated ❋ Unknown (2006)

These spam pings are fake or bogus notifications that a blog has been updated; in some cases, these spings can amount to a denial-of-service attack, and can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total pings Technorati receives. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Technorati is working on putting a stop to spings, but also reports that “about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated, or are attempts to create link farms or click fraud.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Machines write a lot more blogs these days than humans do. 90-95% of all pings are spings, according to which figures you look at. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A lot of the work we've been doing over the last 6 months has been all about reliability and stability - making the systems faster, link counts update nearly instantaneously, making search more comprehensive, dealing with the growth of splogs and spings, and of course, the blogosphere continues to double every 5 months. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Sixty per cent (60%) of pings are from spam blogs and their cousin spings (ping spam -- or spam on trackbacks!) ❋ Unknown (2006)

There are also mineral spings of great variety, and some hot springs, hot enough to boil an egg. ❋ Unknown (1863)

May 7: U.K. dubstep and garage legend Roni Size spings and Revolution in Fort Lauderdale ❋ Unknown (2010)