Search engines are working together to help stop blog spam...

http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000069.html

http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/18/nofollow_tags.aspx

This is important because it is one of the first times in our Industry's history where the major players worked together for everyone's good.

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