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- Released on October 25, 2005
- Developed by Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and the Automattic corporation
- Contraction of Automattic and Kismet, which is "the magnetic attractive force that actualizes the playing out of karma; often used in the positive sense."
- Has captured over 7 billion spam comments as of August 2008
- Scans blog comments for promotional and dangerous links
- Comments deemed spam are held for review
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How to Get Akismet
Akismet is already integrated into free WordPress.com blogs. It is also available with self-hosted WordPress.org blogs, but it must be activated with the API key. Bloggers must be registered with WordPress.com to get the API key, which is free for non-commercial bloggers. Professional, commercial and non-profit bloggers can buy an API key. Developers may also purchase an access license. -




