Wired has a huge feature on Google this month aptly titled “Googlemania”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/google.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=. One piece focused on “Google’s PageRank feature”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/google.html?pg=7&topic=&topic_set= which is at the heart of all the comment spam abuse us bloggers have been dealing with lately.
I’m not too worried about comment spam anymore. I have over 1700 blacklisted URLs in my “MT-Blacklist plug-in”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist and I add more weekly on a preventive basis. And if the comment spam becomes a real problem I’ll just cause them “all kinds of grief”:http://kalsey.com/2003/11/comment_spam_manifesto/ like they do to me.