Bizarre pingback

I published the FutureQuest post about 10 minutes ago. Within that time I have received

this pingback that has taken half my post and linked to it.

It’s definitely automated. But it’s not content scraping. I can’t really figure out what is going on here…

Actually I just had the realisation. Instead of leaving spam comments to get linkbacks they’re leaving spam pingbacks to build link in Google. Kind of smart.

If that’s the wrong conclusion please correct me.