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Google Cans Comment Spam
fthiess writes "Comment spam is in many ways even more annoying than regular email spam, since you generally have to do more than just hit the delete button to get rid of it. Its defining characteristic is that spammers abuse websites where the public can add content (blogs, wikis, forums, and even top referrer lists) to increase their own ranking in search engines. It seems, however, that the days of content spam are numbered: today Google announced that, in partnership with MSN Search and Yahoo!, that they have implemented a way to block content spam." (More below.)
"Briefly, you just change your blogging/wiki/forum/etc. software so that any hyperlinks in publicly-contributed text have a new rel=nofollow attribute added to any anchor tags. Google, MSN, and Yahoo! will now no longer index any such links, so the motive for content spamming disappears. Especially hopeful is the fact that a slew of makers of blogging software, including Six Apart, have announced they are supporting the new attribute."
But what will happen then with the miserable failure and weapons of mass destruction? Can't anyone efficiently bomb google anymore?
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IE have proposed introducting simlar measures to IE6 using ActiveX and DHTML.
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You are assuming that Microsoft talks to Microsoft. With so many divisions and levels of middle management. It is possible for something like this to happen. Because they know they are competing with google but they never got the memo that the MSN Search is blocking these sites.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Censorship? Are you saying that's a bad thing.
How's that old saying go? Your right to free speech ends at my rights to kick you in the nuts when you spam me.
Something like that, anyway...
- I had first a Yahoo account and recently got a GMAIL account. What was of interest is that Yahoo put the GMAIL request into their SPAM folder....
Don't worry too much, this might not be on purpose, but out of stupidity: I am using a (different) big free mailer and they manage to put _their_own_ announcements into the spam folder...How is that for content filtering?
Oh the horrors. And what if I created a site with 5 million links to my competitor's website, then stuck it behind a firewall on my corporate intranet so google couldn't search it at all?! Just think of how much damage I'd be doing to them, with all of those unindexed links!
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Hey! This is the first time that I can comment spam and have it not modded off topic!
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