Archive - Jan 18, 2005

Google, MSN, and other search engines have implemented a new standard that will help reduce comment spam by eliminating the incentive.

Spammers post comment spam to raise their website's search engine ranking. A new link attribute, rel="nofollow" will prevent search engines from crediting that site for the link and will not raise its ranking. Supporters of this new standard include LiveJournal, Blogger, Six Apart, Blogger, WordPress, and Flickr.

According to an AP article spotted on Yahoo, the NFL announced today they have forged an agreement with Audible Inc., an online distributor of audiobooks and other programming, to make recordings of this year's remaining playoff games available for portable audio players, including Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod. from MEMAP.ORG