{"id":192,"date":"2005-01-18T21:43:46","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T02:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2005-01-18T21:43:46","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T02:43:46","slug":"yet-another-reason-why-google-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/01\/18\/yet-another-reason-why-google-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"yet another reason why google rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\">Google<\/a> announced today that they were implementing some changes to their PageRank system to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googleblog\/2005\/01\/preventing-comment-spam.html\" title=\"what? no more texas hold-em?\">help fight comment spam<\/a>. The implementation is pretty simple, you simply add <b>rel=&#8221;nofollow&#8221;<\/b> to your hyperlinks, and the search engine will ignore it. Yahoo! and MSN are also participating, and most of the major blog publishing suites are incorporating the change.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t really miss the couple of spams I get a week, but the existing protections I have in place have been more than adequate. Nicely done, folks. Deadsquidders, I&#8217;ll send you a note on how\/when this gets implemented on your site. You probably won&#8217;t have to do a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced today that they were implementing some changes to their PageRank system to help fight comment spam. The implementation is pretty simple, you simply add rel=&#8221;nofollow&#8221; to your hyperlinks, and the search engine will ignore it. Yahoo! and MSN are also participating, and most of the major blog publishing suites are incorporating the change. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}