Pingoat fights Blog Spam Single-Handedly

I was using Pingomatic to ping after every post until recently. About two weeks ago I discovered what seemed like a superior alternative. 'Pingoat' notifies over 50 services that keep track of blogs. After pinging with Pingoat, these services crawl and index your site.

Pingoat seemed a lot faster and cleaner than Pingomatic to me. Unlike Pingomatic it always worked - and worked quickly - when I used it. I couldn't believe only one person was behind Pingoat.

This site is so cool that I doubt Pingoat's founder will ever have time for college. His name is Kailash Nadh and he lives in India.

I was floored when I read that he just finished highschool this May! He's planning to take a year off before college. Well, he should probably forget about that idea. I've got little doubt that within a few months he will have landed himself a dream job as a very senior (self-taught) engineer at Google, Yahoo or MSN.

But the story gets even more interesting. Not only has he developed Pingoat, but now he is working on a spam filter for blogs. If his spam filter starts blacklisting most of the spam blogs out there from his Pingoat service --- can you imagine how incredibly big and influential and downright heroic Pingoat would be?

My 'blacklisted by the Pingoat' saga:

Unfortunately, as I went to ping on Pingoat today, I received a message saying my blog had been blacklisted. I was very hurt and shocked. Does this look like a spam blog to you? So I emailed Pingoat.

It turns out he has received hundreds of emails today from people who felt as equally wounded as me. He is asking for patience as he works out the bugs. Incidentally, he is asking for help too if anyone is so inclined and capable. I take it he is basing his spam filter on a paper he published on his website. It's entitled "Fighting Spam Blogs".

The incredible brain behind Pingoat is in the middle of trying to fight spam single-handedly. Any big guns reading this, please put some resources his way!




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