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Pretty significant new initiative from google to counter comment spam. I think I’ll add this feature to loquo comments as well. Example of comment in an apartment in barcelona listing. Perhaps I should even do it in the main body of a message.

Tim Bray has an interesting (and funny) request for just label I think also we need to come up with a iconic representation to convey the “html content here won’t give you google juice” message so people know that it ain’t goint to help them, that once their contributed content is rendered in html, it will be modified to comply with nofollow initiative.

update: Ana, te respondo en abierto. Si que he visto muchas criticas a esto, casi todas para mi incomprensibles. Cierto que etiquetar el nofollow como la cura del spam es una exageración; acaso alguien quiere que sus comentarios se llenen de poker y morgages, indenpendientemente que den google juice o no? De lo que no hay duda es que esto nos da más flexibilidad para controlar el comportamiento de los search engines, más o menos en la misma manera que robots file le dice al SE que no indexe ciertos ficheros/directorios o el pragma que le dice al SE que no guarde la pagina indexada en la cache.

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