Google’s SearchWiki

Google announced the launch of their new “SearchWiki” today and, quite frankly, I’m not completely sure I get it. Well, I guess it seems obvious enough at first glance, but what about the long-term viability?

Here’s the pitch:

Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you’re an avid hiker and the trail map

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Small Adjustment to My "No nofollow" Policy

As mentioned several times, I’m a “do follow” blog. Long story short, I don’t feel that commenters’ links should be marked as “rel=nofollow.”

Until today I have been using the slick DoFollow plugin by Kimmo Suominen. That plugin allows a bit of a time delay before removing the nofollow attribute which is helpful in the

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31 months later

Just over two and a half years ago I made my first enthusiastic “Hello World” blog post. I was naive and eager and ready to make my mark on the world. A lot of the posts from my first 9 months are long gone as I didn’t bother to save all of them when I

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More on the Potential For DoFollow Abuse

I’m still not changing my mind: Getting rid of “rel=nofollow” on comments still feels like the right thing to do. However, I’m noticing more and more discussions about it that are food for thought.

A couple weeks ago, I touched on this and mentioned the disturbing trend of “seo types” listing out dofollow (the

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Thursday Thoughts

Random thoughts and links follow:

There’s a downside to the “I follow” movement. I’ve been seeing these “seo magic” articles that list out all the blogs they’ve found not using “nofollow” and encourage folks to leave comments for SEO purposes. I get some garbage comments… If the comment is tolerable but the link

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