Splogs on blogspot aren’t Google’s only problem, the Google Adsense for domains program is also under assualt.

The data from the Strider Typo-Patrol System also highlighted the use of typo-squatting in phishing attacks. Web sites belonging to Bank of America Corp., Barclays Bank PLC., Citigroup Inc. have all been targeted, with misspelled variations of domains pointing to fake banking sites with Google ads tailored to financial services. In an interesting twist, the Google ads sometimes point back to the actual site that is deliberately misspelled, meaning that companies are paying per-click fees to the scammers.

Does the Google Adsense team needs to hire away some of the Microsoft Labs team to help them defeat this typo domain scamming?

I curious how the (coming soon for the rest of us?) AdCenter will handle scams like this, or will they stay completely out of the domain parking business? It’s easy to lob stones into the water when you aren’t wading in the current. It seems to me that Google’s domain parking service is open season for abuse and it will be interesting to see how they deal with this.

Are they making some improvement in the battle against the splogs? I haven’t used their blogsearch very much, so am not a very good judge. I just did a search there and saw some spammy results but when I clicked through the blogspot domains seem to have been taken offline. So they seem to be disabling at least some of the suspicious activity.

Any readers using Google blogsearch over Feedster, Technorati, IceRocket, etc?

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