The google power

January 23, 2005 Edit

I said earlier how I thought that google was giving way too much power to blogs for the taste of the corporate world.

I had a wierd proof of that today when I checked my referrals. Turns out that on a search for Cubiks on google UK, I'm listed as the 8th items. Even more frightening, I'm listed before any other non cubiks web site.

I believe this definitly is a reversal of power on the web. Imagine if I wanted to criticize this company for whatever reason, my entry would end up being up there before anything else. Before comments from real clients. And even more than that, I am not responsible for it.

Internet Explorer support started...

January 21, 2005 Edit

I added some form of IE support using the IE7 javascript toolkit... Now only thing left to fix for ie is the alpha blended png i use as a background, and for all browsers make the web site a bit faster. Alpha blended html elements are definitly getting the performance down!

rel="nofollow" doesn't stop spam, it removes the incentive

January 20, 2005 Edit http

I just saw (just before unsubscribing) Robert’s entry about the google nofollow attribute and how everybody, according to him, is wrong in thinking it will stop spam.

http://weblogs.asp.net/rmclaws/archive/2005/01/19/356271.aspx

Go and read the link, and come back here. Done?

Well, the thing is, why do spammers use comments and referrers on blogs like yours? I don’t think it has anything to do with the spammer targeting your audience as being more interested in Viagra than the general public.

It has to do with your high google juice. It has to do with the target web site going up in the google index. That’s the only reason they target blogs. They leverage google juice. They don’t care about your readers, and I really don’t think their intention is for your readers to follow the link.

Removing the only reason why they target comment spam is a step in the right direction, and one that will be much more efficient than any blacklisting in the future. If antispam technology was built-in any mail client out there, I’m not sure we would see the same amount of spam being sent.

Only point where I’d agree with Robert is that it doesn’t replace a CAPTCHA tool (available on my blog thanks to dasBlog 1.7).