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Re:How rel=nofollow Works by masklinn on Thursday January 12, 2012 @10:07AM (#3456531)
Interesting, so their implementation has broadly expanded upon the original meaning of the attribute (and the one standardized as a microformat), and in recommending this be broadly used to fight against spam they've paved the way for an interesting time for everybody else?
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Re:How rel=nofollow Works by jasonlotito on Friday January 13, 2012 @08:16AM (#3460401)
Broadly expanded? Standardized? Please.

I think the nofollow attributes intent was fairly straight forward from the beginning: to designate links that should not be accorded attention in search results. In 2005, this was merely via PageRank. Today, it's recommendations in search results.

Why would I want to see search results that shouldn't be given weight in a search result in a search result? Explain that to me.

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