Why spotplex sucks

Published on August 4, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0    

Recently launched news ranking site Spotplex just sucks. Spotplex ranks the stories based on page views and categorizes them.

Look at the spotplex technology section and you will know what i mean. One would expect technology stories on spotplex technology section but to my surprise there are few irrelevant stories (kind of a soft porn), i looked at few popular technology section pages and the result is same. To my surprise most of these stories are from one blog (mastmaja.blogspot.com), i would love to know what this blogger did to manipulate spotplex rankings. If you look at his blog posts you will find that he placed 2 spotplex widgets this may be the reason?.

I guess this might be a flaw in their ranking algorithm, if they dont fix this soon more people may manipulate the spotplex rankings.

See the screenshots below.
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2 Responses to “Why spotplex sucks”


  1. Damn… There should always an option to vote of spam / irrelevant ranking in such kind of ranking systems. BTW, I stopped using Spotplex since their widgets took more time to load.!

  2. Yes ur right, it takes lot of time to load

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