Google blogsearch

would be nice (allowing you to sort results by date), if it weren’t full of spam. It seems that spammers copy random content fragments from other webpages and put them into “blogs” to increase their pagerank.

This makes you wonder if pagerank issn’t something really really evil…

Basically, by using pagerank, google makes spammers do ugly stuff like this linkfarming, guestbookspam and blogspam we’ve all come to hate the last few years.

And rel=”nofollow” doesn’t really help much either. Spammers are too lazy to test for that attribute, they just spam. It would maybe be different if all links were “nofollow” by default, and web page authors actually needed to mark links as “good”.