Multilingual Spam
by JS
Sifting through my Akismet spam filter today I noticed a number of comments in Cyrillic. Clicking the associated website links led me to Russian language default themed WordPress blogs. It seems like splogs are easy to identify, even when written in another language.
[Aside: Even though I'm 99% sure these are spam blogs, and so won't link to them, I'm basing this solely on the way the blogs appear, and not on any kind of semantic understanding of the content. Interestingly, this is actually quite close to the way most spam filters "view" spam, as a collection of semantically meaningless but connected word bags.]
