Re: Google's method to fight comment spam

cwolf wrote:
>  From what I gather comment spam hasn't been much of an issue in Xaraya 
> yet, but it's something to keep one's eye on.
> 
> Google has a proposal that is backed by a few other systems to help 
> fight comment spam by skipping links in comments that have a 
> rel="nofollow" tag appended to them.
> 
> You can read more on it here 
> http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
> 
> -cwolf

Interesting development from Google - especially since one of their
main features in the early days compared to other search engines was
that they took into account those cross-references (from web pages
in general) to improve the ranking. Victims of their own success ? :)

Mike.