Wikipedia Adds No Follow to Links 264
netbuzz writes "In an attempt to thwart spammers and search-engine optimization mischief, Wikipedia has begun tagging all external links on its site "nofollow", which renders those links invisible to search engines. Whether this is a good thing, a bad thing, or simply unavoidable has become a matter of much debate." This topic has come up before and the community voted to remove nofollow back in 2005. This new round of nofollow comes as a directive from Wikia President, Jimbo Wales.
Idea for a New Search Engine with Unique Ranking? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Neither good nor bad. It's immaterial. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
Phew 5 +5 comments in a row (Score:3, Funny)
Somebody needs to ban these people. If this trend continues, then