Search Engines, Bloggers Team to Fight Spam, eWeek, 18 Jan 2005

“The Internet's leading search engines and a major Weblog tool vendor are joining together to fight the onslaught of spam in the comment sections of blogs. Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division and Six Apart Ltd. will announce late Tuesday that they are supporting a tag called "nofollow" for excluding blog comments from search-engine crawlers and to prevent spam posts from influencing search rankings, officials with the companies confirmed to eWEEK.com.�

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