Blogger (a.k.a. blogspot.com) is becoming more and more about spamblogs now. The proportion of actual blogs there has been decreasing steadily. I've got one copying this LiveJournal, and I've seen great many of my friends mention their blogs are copied too. Spamblogs started as blogs that would randomly take text segments from a number of journals, but now they simply copy whole blogs. Blogger is so completely unmotivated to discourage spamblogging it seems as if they actually like hosting them for the extra clicks they bring in.

I'm used to what I type being cached at various sites on the net, so the fact that there is an extra copy does not bother me in and of itself. What bothers me is that it muddies the search result, especially for people looking for content specifically related to me and what I write about. The spam blogs are not tagged and comments won't be responded to. They provide an inferior detour from the blog they copy at the expense of both the blogger and the reader.