[wp-hackers] OT: "Nofollow" Rant

[Chris Traweek]

I beg to differ.  For the most part, the people coming up with these
ideas at google ARE us.  They just happen to have nice jobs at google.
 It's easy to set something aside as "corporate" but the reality is
that they employ people like you and I.   They also empower their
employees to pursure their personal projects.

This change was made public in the way they did to get the word out
and encourage developers to implement and support the new changes.  I
think it was fairly effective as most of the "movers and shakers" in
the "blogging" industry as well as the developers in the massively
multi-user web-application business are well aware of the new feature.


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:21:09 -0700, Craig Hartel <craig at nuclearmoose.com> wrote:
> Chris Traweek wrote:
> > I know the person who came up with rel="nofollow" at google,  and can
> > guarentee that it was not implemented as a form of "publicity".
> >
> > They're trying to help fix the problem in a way that empowers us all.
> >
> 1. I agree they aren't using it as publicity. However, their news release, along
> with the other players, seems to imply that they have come up with something
> that is on the scale of the next iPod or something.
> 
> 2. Google "caused" all this problem when they created the Page Ranking system.
> It was short-sighted, to say the least. There was criticism of it from the very
> start, but as Google was a private enterprise, they answered to nobody.
> 
> 3. They don't give a plug nickel about empowering me. "They" being the corporate
> internet. If every blogger who had an AdSense account removed all the ads from
> their blogs, then that would be a bigger motivation to Google than simply
> stopping spam. They are in the business to make money, pure and simple. If
> bloggers take away a large source of income, maybe we'd have more clout.
> 
> Craig.
> Cranky Nuclear Moose.
> 
> 
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