Several good threads and links have popped up with relationships to search spam. Although I'm still out of town and have very few minutes in the day to post, I thought I'd mention these:
  • On the subject of the Search Engine Spam Workshop
  • A blackhat vs. whitehat debate at SEOChat - Dirty secret I used to get one way links
  • I received some e-mail spam for the movie - Kingdom of Heaven - incredible that even Hollywood is using spam (whether directly or not) to move actions. I'm guessing noone should go see this film; if it does well, we could be in for a flood of movie promoting spam.