Search Engines Battle Comment Spam

I'm not really sure how big a problem blog comment spam is for everyone else. Here, our dedicated readership is so small, well, we're lucky to get any comments at all. We'd actually appreciate a bit of comment spam here and there.

But, Google and its other search engine cronies are putting a stop to comment spam. Actually, to be more precise, they aren't stopping the comment spam problem, they're just making it obsolete. They're evidently adding a piece of code to every link in every comment on every blog so that they can't be followed by search engine "spiders". It's a great idea, and I applaud their efforts.

But, then again, you have to remember: I'm a Google whore.