VeriSign has bought weblogs.com. The strange thing about this is that their press releases actually talk about blog spam and splogs. VeriSign's corporate blog Infrablog, for instance, says:

As for additional services, there's a wide variety of services that we're looking at and working on right now, but will focus on one that we're committed to in the near term and believe is a compelling problem for the blogosphere in general: blog spam.

and:

We've just begun doing some analysis on just how many blogs out there are real [...] rather than simply splogs [...]. In talking to Google, they can confirm what our initial scan tells us: there are an enormous number of splogs out there, and the number is growing faster than the number of real blogs. By a good margin.

It seems like the corporate wold has noticed the problem. And it also seems that they want to fight it.

Of course, the irony is that this is coming from VeriSign, the mother of web spam. Remember the SiteFinder fiasco?

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