splog

English

Etymology

Blend of spam +‎ blog.

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Noun

splog (plural splogs)

  1. (Internet) A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam.
    • [2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[1]:
      The “b” in these words is all that remains from its ancestor, Berners-Lee’s Web, and even that slim vestige can be lost when blog blends with other words, as in vlog (a video blog) and splog (a spam blog).]

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