YJL

When I was reading my daily report, I noticed there was a different referrer:

That referrer link is a long list of Recently Updated Blogs¹ on Blogger, there were 9,400 blogs updated within 10 minutes as of writing.

I assumed they are all different blogs since the chance of two posts published within 10 minutes should not be likely, normally. But if you looked at the screenshot above, you know some entries could be from same blog. You also know splogs (spam blogs) are on Blogger.

Blogger actually has no need for report or flag button for spotting those bad blogs which are abusing their system. A simple shell script to grab that XML format and extract URL, run wc, head top few entries, then you get some blogs are eligible to suspend. Of course, they don’t need to do with shell script, just querying database would do.

That is 940 posts a minute, near 16 posts published a second on Blogger. Holy molly, that’s a lot of posts in a second. Certainly, I am sure not all of them are written by humans as you see from the screenshot. Also, they can also be from updating posts not all from publishing new posts. Still, it is a stunning number.

This is sort of an Easter Egg for me. ;)