While acknowledging that the new nofollow tag will not do anything — immediately — to stop comment spam, I think most of the criticisms are off-base in one way or another. —More on the Google nofollow tag (Dave Does the Blog)

One blogger’s reaction to the new “nofollow” tag, which is aimed at denying spammers the PageRank benefit they get when they bombard websites with links to the products they are hawking.

Also check out the pictures running down the left hand side of Dave’s blog, showing him regress from a bearded, bespectacled man, to a moustached, bespectacled youth, to a bespectacled child, to a baby.

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