Somehow Google coordinated in mere hours a sea-change in the way the internet works - without having one standards meeting. Who is John Galt? Google is.
Apparently, Google got MSN and Yahoo to agree to add a NoFollow attribute to HTML. According to Google, all you have to do is rel="nofollow" to your anchor tags, and your links no longer contribute to the page rankings of the linked site. Also, blog software can automatically inject it into comments to prevent comment-spammers from hijacking your comments to increase their own page-rankings. Sweet.
Now I've got to get moving. I'm late for work. Doh!
posted @ Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:23 AM