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Japan: 40% Spam Blog

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 @ 04:43 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: Japan
Topics:: Media, International Relations

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Asiajin pointed to Nifty Laboratory survey which found out 40% Japanese Blogs are spam.

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March 27th, 2008 at 19:20 pm
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