Weblog Comments - A New Frontier for Spam

Posted Oct 30, 2003 10:51 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792)
In reply to: Weblog Comments - A New Frontier for Spam by james
Parent article: Weblog Comments - A New Frontier for Spam

I suspect that google is already employing techniques to de-emphasize weblog-links. I
remember reading that they had problems with some sites suddenly popping high up in their
results, because a lot of weblogs were linking to the site because of some recent and
interesting event. (Consider it a google-variant of the slashdot effect if you will.)

How they are doing it I don't know, but what you are describing is exactly what google would
want to do anyway: A "real" link is more valuable than one found in a weblog, especially one
in a weblog-comment.

henrik