spotback.com

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:38 pm

Spotback is described by its developers as "a personalized rating system that recommends relevant content based on personal rating history using collaborative filtering and aggregated knowledge technologies".

Basically, it's an add-in for blogs that shows ads relevant on the block, and specifically the content you are rating right now (when you move over the stars to select a rating, ads appear).

It can be blocked by adding a filter for the entire spotback.com domain.

fanboy · Post by **fanboy** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:48 pm

Have you got a sample url using spotback.com?

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:10 am

fanboy wrote:Have you got a sample url using spotback.com?

*EDIT: CORRECTION (forgot link)*

I found one here:
http://blogtools2.blogspot.com/search/l ... %A7%C3%A3o

... not really sure sure what to make of this rating service. It seems that:

Code: Select all

/spotback.com/scripts/*

...blocks it all. But it also kills the 'star' ratings too. With the current subscriptions, I see no extra ads whether it is blocked or not.

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:03 am

Beside the above info, I found something else very odd there. If the "%C3%A7%C3%A3o" is removed from the above link and you only go to:
http://blogtools2.blogspot.com/search/label/divulga
... instead of:
http://blogtools2.blogspot.com/search/l ... %A7%C3%A3o
... the site is the same, but "spotback.com" is not present in the "Blockable items" list. Odd. Does the actual link have to contain that info for spotback to work?