« Cryptozoology's good year | Main | There Is No Crisis » Web 2.0 Spam Squashing SummitEver think that Google could take the lead in stopping comment spam by figuring out how to ignore links posted within blog comments? Since the purpose of comment spam is to create more links to sites and boost page ranking, ignoring those links would remove the incentive to spam. Yesterday Google announced a program to do just that, by working with blog software makers, who can modify their software so that links within comments get a rel="nofollow" attribute that will tell Google to ignore the links. Meanwhile David Sifry has called for a Web 2.0 Spam Squashing Summit. Tags: spamsummit jon posted this at 12:05 AM |
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