On the surface, when Dave Winer put up a placeholder post this weekend on the Bloggercon site ... ... several bloggers have reported that Winer was testing its PageRank calculations that have a . This would change the economics behind why people comment spam popular blogs - to boost their Google search rank. If this is true, it would certainly be welcome. Stay tuned. Comments The problem is that just as comment spammers who spew hundreds of comments on sites, only to have them vanish within hours aren't stopping what they are doing now - with no incentive of being indexed with the posts. So it'll be a long time before this makes a dent, IMHO. But a fix nonetheless. Also: comment spammers may not care about the indexing to some extent, and will continue to plaster blogs just for the sake of doing so. As revenge, of course. Posted by: David Parmet | January 17, 2005 05:22 PM _______________________________________________ Jeremy. There's some speculation that those seemingly random strings are placeholders or test strings. I.e. if when they come back or search and they find those strings still on your weblog then your an open target and you get hit hard. Posted by: Andreas Wacker | January 17, 2005 07:29 PM Senior Vice President with Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.
Google to Put Kibosh on Blog Comment Spam
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