Google and Comment Spam

Google have published a possible solution to comment spam which involves adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to any third-party links. Seems like a good idea and almost zero cost to implement.

Of course it doesn't just apply to weblogs. Here's how to patch pmwiki to output external links with the new attribute: add the following line to your config.php file:

$UrlLinkFmt = "$LinkText";

Permalink: http://blog.iandavis.com/2005/01/google-and-comment-spam/

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