It sounds like we're getting very close to a cure (or at least a decent prophylactic) for comment and trackback spam. It's good to see the search guys working on this from both ends. Now, we just need all of the major blog tools to add this feature as an option.
Posted by asa at January 19, 2005 11:17 PMI wound up leaving my comment on this post at the tail end of a few hundred words I was already writing along the same lines. Of course, since Kerz has already installed the nofollow plugin for you, will ye, nil ye, Google won't ever know that you know.
Posted by: Phil Ringnalda on January 20, 2005 01:18 AMhttp://battellemedia.com/archives/001198.php
Posted by: Wally on January 20, 2005 04:37 AMInteresting...
I think what's most funny, tho, is that Google's not really helping any bloggers now -- Google is merely doing itself a favor by getting people to police junk content before it pollutes Google's search results. Comment spammers likely aren't going to stop anytime soon, so this is basically just a feel-good moment before we start waiting the years it'll take before comment spammers stop spamming (if, indeed, they ever stop spamming).
Posted by: Jeff Walden on January 20, 2005 07:18 AM