The Echo Nest Blog: How We Cope with Spammers, Fakers, and Cloners

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Here, The Echo Nest Senior Software Engineer Aaron Mandel explores the sneaky techniques used by musical spammers to “game the system” in music services — and how we stop them from succeeding.

The Echo Nest knows approximately 2.4 million artists as part of our database of music…

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05/18/13 at 9:14pm
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    In which the remarkable Aaron Mandel presents a taxonomy of the terrible, terrible things that turn up in digital music...
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    A very interesting piece about users piggy-backing on the success in order to use internet advertising and other...
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