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January 20, 2005
Google to 'Prevent' Comment Spam
According to their recent post in Googleblog Google promotes a new attribute (rel="nofollow") to be used ;automatically' in blog comments so that the websites will not get any credit when they rank websites in our search results.
In principle one would say that this is a good measure but thinking a little deeper I think that this attribute isn't really going to stop comment spamming by any chance. The discount pharmaceuticals, sex, and casino sites are not just placing comments for the benefit of their pagerank but as an 'awareness' method for visitors as well. It also worries me that some 'clever' webmasters may even use the attribute in their websites in order to build their own PageRank.
Sad as it is I don't believe this will be the end of comment spam.
Since we are on the subject let me thank Jay Allen once more for his wonderful spam blocking MT blacklist.
Posted by Basileios at January 20, 2005 08:37 AM
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