jd01 - 5:37 pm on May 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I don't know if I like it or not, but it seems funny everyone is blasting Yahoo! when we have a rel="nofollow" link attribute for PR.

Did Google ask MSN and Y! to make sure they were going to support the tag that directly impacts their Patented PageRank algo? Or, if Y! and M would support it for discounting paid advertisers links? (I don't see any of you ranting in the Google forum because of the increased page clutter.)

No, sorry, my bad, I forgot, it's Google's tag, they can do as they feel is right, but no one else can. Don't use it if you don't like it.

How ridiculous everyone gets their panties in a wad because Yahoo! gave people something some people asked for and didn't ask permission. How out of line did Y! get? What were those idiots thinking? Silly fools, don't they know they have to ask?

Are they actually including tag attributes in their indexing ... storage... algorythms?

You really think SEs 'strip' html it's the tags prior to storage? If so, where do those cached pages come from? You know, the ones with the formatting that look like the page on your website, but are served from the SE...

If it weren't ever 'out of date' I would buy the theory they are using something similar to php's fopen(), but since the cache and the actual page aren't always the same, me thinks they haves some copies of them tags on file somewhere...

Justin
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Added: Maybe I should state "I don't see most ranting because of increased page clutter created by Google. Yes, there were some who were opposed, but that was to the principle of the tag (most recently re: paid advertisers), not the increased clutter, because it's too long. It could just as easily be rel="nf", etc."

Edited: A couple of times, for clarity, etc.

Added2: Sorry, was a little hot when it seemed like all anyone was doing was ranting about how silly Y! was for not making sure everyone could support the tag, when we have tags for other SEs not everyone supports.

Added3: I bet if we all didn't use any proprietary tags, they would stop creating proprietary tags, but that's probably not going to happen.

I probably shouldn't have clicked on the Y! link today. Sorry.