A Look at Some of the Negative Feedback on rel="nofollow"

re: A Look at Some of the Negative Feedback on rel="nofollow"

SuperJason — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:40:00 GMT

In my opinion, the best solution is to use the "nofollow" attribute for anonymous users, and don't use it for non-anonymous users. The trick is to determine which you are. One of my favorite ideas, but not without it's flaws, is to use an image where the user has to type in the randomly generated string.

re: A Look at Some of the Negative Feedback on rel="nofollow"

Bryan Wilhite — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:11:00 GMT

The nofollow attribute looks like another way to artificially ignore people, which is what empires are made of... I would rather be explicitly reduced to the absurd but then again Condi Rice seems immune to such public demonstrations so let the corporate artifice begin...

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re: A Look at Some of the Negative Feedback on rel="nofollow"

Jeroen van den Bos — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:08:00 GMT

Shouldn't Google fix a problem in its algorithm by fixing the algorithm?

When searching Google, I often just want to get to the page that people associate with a certain issue, regardless of whether that source is authoritative or not. Because with this change, you leave it up to other (mostly) unqualified persons to judge the authoritativeness of sources, which will probably yield the same crap in the end.

re: A Look at Some of the Negative Feedback on rel="nofollow"

David Sifry — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:34:00 GMT

Technorati already supports the nofollow tag - we still index the posts and links, but we don't count them in our authority rankings, see my blog for more details...

Dave

re: Semantices of nofollow

Julien Couvreur — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:48:00 GMT

According to the Google announcement:
"From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results."

This sounds like the indexer will still index the linked page, but the PageRank calculation simply doesn't take that link into account (the link doesn't exist).
But I agree with you that there is a good chance that the three major search engines possibly could have slightly different interpretations. That happens even with detailled standards ;-)

re: Design flaw in PageRank algorithm

Julien Couvreur — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:49:00 GMT

Bill de Hora points out an interesting feedback loop: PageRank is based on the theory that links carry influence, now Google is asking the web to be modify to sustain this theory better (in face of adversity).

http://www.dehora.net/journal/2005/01/we_the_observers.html

re: A Look at Some of the Negative Feedback on rel="nofollow"

Lachlan Hunt — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:51:00 GMT

The nofollow relationship is indeed very harmful. I also covered many reasons for why it is, and also discuss a much better alternative with more well defined semantics in parts 1 and 2 of Link Relationships Revisited.

http://lachy.id.au/blogs/log/2005/01/link-relationships-revisited-part-1
http://lachy.id.au/blogs/log/2005/01/link-relationships-revisited-part-2

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