Spam chongqing

We all knew it was really up to Goggle to stop comment spamming. Well, they have finally provided a solution:

If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site." This is called comment spam, we don't like it either, and we've been testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.

They have several other search engines and blog software providers on board already. It will be really great when chongqing is no longer necessary. But I fear that day is a long way off.

Manni, Halz, and Slashdot beat me to the story:

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