Why nofollow isn’t working

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[h0bbel] Google introduced nofollow to combat comment spam. Michael Hampton disects the implications it's had, and explains why it's not working as intended. Check it out, it's a very interesting read.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Tempus Fugit Blog [ Tempus Fugit | TxFx.net ]] Google’s Insidious “Nofollow”: would no longer get ranking. Not only has rel="nofollow" failed to prevent blog spam, Michael Hampton.... If your blog software inserts nofollow, then in order for you to give another blog Google juice, you have... had received no comments or trackbacks at all. ”¦ As we’ve seen, rel=”nofollow” is Google’s way

A step toward solving comment spam? || kuro5hin.org: in the end, it comes down to a class war between the blogging and advertising proletarian and the corporate forces behind yahoo, google, and the "trolls" they employ. in reality, as small independent entities, the spammer and the blogger are ultimately on the same side of the fight, constantly attempting to find room in the marketplace for their (admittedly questionable) content amidst a world dominated by megaconglomerates who want to put them out of business by any means necessary, whether it's by harassing the bloggers' users or by flooding the legitimate spammers' advertisements out of sight.

Preoccupations: Internet: I can't improve on how John Battelle has put this (see my previous post), and I believe he's right, the effect of the rel="nofollow" initiative will be to 'discourage active and intelligent dialog on a post'. In fact, I think this has already started ”” for psychological reasons: I am not so pushy or impressed by myself as to want to flog you my blog by ceaselessly (and meaninglessly) linking to it, but when I read some of the disparaging comments flying around now about bloggers who ever dare to link to their own postings in comments then I feel great reluctance to go down that road at all. And yet, this (linking) is what we do all the time in conversation ("Yeah, I had just that conversation the other day with X ”” she said ”¦ and I said ”¦"), in academic life, in our work places ”¦ We're sociable and social animals and we need to retain the ability to function fully like this in comments on each other's sites. I'm entirely happy for the owner of the site to exercise control (we do, don't we?

Search Engine Watch Blog: April 19, 2005 Archives: Buys TeRespondo.com to gain market share in Latin America from Nacho Hernandez at Search Engine Roundtable revisits Yahoo's TeRespondo purchase last week to provide some stats to show why Latin America growth was of interest -- and why he feels it was easier for Yahoo to buy the company than try to steal its distribution partners. He also looks at Google hiring for Brazil and Mexico. Want to discuss? Join Nacho and others in our forum thread, Yahoo!

Search Engine Watch Blog: April 19, 2005 Archives: Buys TeRespondo.com to gain market share in Latin America from Nacho Hernandez at Search Engine Roundtable revisits Yahoo's TeRespondo purchase last week to provide some stats to show why Latin America growth was of interest -- and why he feels it was easier for Yahoo to buy the company than try to steal its distribution partners. He also looks at Google hiring for Brazil and Mexico. Want to discuss? Join Nacho and others in our forum thread, Yahoo!

Tree Speaker: January 2005: "Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 800 million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account."And now they have a timeline that points out some of the more intersting points within that timeline...

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Posted at May 23, 2005 01:21 PM