Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ping-O-Matic

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Copysan was the only one to seriously argue against it, and they addressed mostly the notability of the technology, not of this company. Sandstein 21:11, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ping-O-Matic

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"Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated." Yeah, right. Surprisingly high Alexa rank in 4200's, probably due to link incest/spam, since the company seems to be exactly in that kind of business. However, still non-notable enough concept. Spamming search engines with blogs is hardly new (or notable). timecop 06:06, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. MER-C 06:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or merge to Ping (blogging) Ping-O-Matic is used by thousands of bloggers to promote their website. (See Ping_blog) It acutally is not spam. The blog world evolved a service called pinging to notify the general public of when their websites were updated. This spawned services like Technorati. The author of the blog would simply need to put a ping url in his post. As the numbers of these services grew, the numbers of urls grew, so a service like Ping-O-Matic was formed to return to putting one single URL instead of many. PingOMatic does not spam search engines. It sends pings to blog search engines, which literally want people to ping them. Also, do a google; 1 million hits, and the first couple pages are independent blogs mentioning the ups and downs of the service. I do admit the article does need to be improved. Copysan 08:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete weblogs are not a reliable source. Demiurge 12:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn concept, and high Alexa probably due to the linkspamming cited in the nomination. Eusebeus 14:31, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Ping-O-Matic is certainly notable in their field, although they're not the only player. "Pinging" blog search engines is a significant part of the blogging ecosystem. That said, the short list on Ping (blogging) of the major ping services is sufficient. Any mergeable content should be moved there. —Wrathchild ^(talk) 16:59, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Ping-O-Delete - or speedy delete, or delete. advertising page for a spam company. blog related. - Femmina 20:32, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• keep Do not judge on the basis of whether you like or approve of the product or the site. DGG 22:58, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. No assertion of notability in article. No non-trivial coverage by multiple, third-party published sources. -- Satori Son 05:00, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.