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The new rel=”nofollow” syntax for html a tags has caused quite a stir on the web this week. It seems that almost all of the blogs that I read are abuzz with opinions and comments regarding this impressive feat of cooperation amongst the major search engines. Here are the official announcements:

• Google’s Announcement: Preventing comment spam
• Yahoo’s Announcement: A Defense Against Comment Spam
• MSN Search’s Announcement: Working Together Against Blog Spam
• Six Apart’s Announcement: Support for nofollow

And now that a bit of the dust has settled, the following links are ex post facto, third-party opinions that I found interesting:

• Google adds “nofollow” to link tags
• Follow up on Nofollow
• Is rel = “nofollow” really as !important as that?
• Let no fellow nofollow, lest we all lie fallow
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• Follow On No Follow: Will “Fully web-expressed writing” Suffer?
• Google Cans Comment Spam

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