jecasc - 9:31 am on Oct 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

Isn't DMOZ not only that valuable because many other sites link to it? I link to several DMOZ categories myself on my website.

What do you say: There are spammers on DMOZ? Then I should quickly ad no-follow to all those links to DMOZ. After all I don't want to promote SPAM and that should discourage spammers.

Hey why not put no-follow on every link? After all I link to several other websites, that link to DMOZ that links to spammers. And I have links to websites that have links to websites that links to DMOZ that links to SPAM. And so on.

Same for Wikipedia.

That should greatly improve the quality of the internet, when nobody puts links anywhere anymore just for gaining PR.

And as a sideeffect: That would finally lead us back to the good old times of the early Altavista where SERPS where purely ranked by the content of the website and not by ranking of ingoing links.

I just loved to wade through 20 pages of irrelevant Search results before finally not finding what I was looking for.