Monday, February 07, 2005 | On this day:

Google's Blog

Check out Google's blog at: http://www.google.com/googleblog/
The posts made there are quite interesting. I am posting here one of those posts.

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Preventing comment spam

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.

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Also check out Google Suggest, one of Google's current experiments, which offers keyword suggestions in real time. Quite good. > Google Suggest <
And Google Video, another Google Experiment, which lets you search recent TV programs online. Interesting. > Google Video <

1 Comments:

At 9:08 PM, February 09, 2005, Blogger Shashank Shekhar said...

Yeah.. this is essential since spammers always find new ways of doing their dirty stuff. I was supremely impressed by Google Suggest and more than that, Google Sets. That seemed like one awesome experiment. Keep checking out http://labs.google.com to follow Google's latest public researches..

 

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