Google is just one many companies profiting from spreading blight. Pundits make a fairly convincing case that Google Adsense has been the single largest factor driving the creation of Splogs and MFA Webspam. Googles contribution to Virtual Blight goes beyond monetizing bad content for spammy webmasters. Google provides basic infrastructure and add legitimacy to the hordes of Parasitic Marketers who use deceptive and possibly illegal tactics to make money — while leaving a trail of decimated profiles, devalued web real estate and disgusted users. What’s among the biggest contributor to blight on MySpace? The leagues of sock ... more