posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 9:34 PM
by
David Forstrom
Blogs, Search Engines: Just Say No to Comment Spam
Chalk this move up by the blog and search worlds as a stellar example of co-opetition. Google, Microsoft's MSN division, Yahoo, and Six Apart
announced late today their support for a "nofollow" tag that can be
used to stop blog comment spam from influencing search engine rankings.
This won't be the end-all for comment spam, but it sure takes away
some of the incentive. And it's a good lesson of what's possible
when we collaborate with one another.