I have been keeping track of my increasing traffic lately, and noticed much better rankings on technorati and mybloglog among others. However I was just looking through my incoming links and noticed this one from the Google Gears blog with some wierd text in a comment. Looking at the blog, it appears to just be a link farm and adwords abuser that pulls in any mention of Google Gears (which I recently just posted an article from). They pulled in the text from my entire post based on those keywords and auto generated a post on their blog. Wierd spam traffic.
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You got scraped by them, too, huh? Now you’re a “blog reaction” to the Google Gears Blog on Technorati. I found them just like you, which is how I found you
At least they don’t scrape the entire post content and you get a link back out of it–let Google deal with the AdSense abuse. They don’t appear to be terribly popular yet by Technorati standards, anyway. Congrats on the traffic spike!