techcrunch.com— here was a lot of controversy recently when Wikipedia announced that all outbound links from the online encyclopedia would include the nofollow tag. Interesting point of view.
Apr 28, 2007View in Crawl 4
@TiCLI wouldn't call it a "hypocrisy". It's just that links to Wikia have the rel="nofollow" attribute removed; big deal. External links to Wikia still have the attribute.
Google started with "Do no evil".But to be you have to be little or sometime a lot more evil.Be to much of nice guys and you will make history like IBM.Successful Business needs evil ruthless criticism and competition.
bamborzledApr 29, 2007
@TiCLI wouldn't call it a "hypocrisy". It's just that links to Wikia have the rel="nofollow" attribute removed; big deal. External links to Wikia still have the attribute.
bioskopeApr 29, 2007
Yea because geek donations should bring in all the money they need to run their site for long periods of time.... NOTBig f**king Deal. No digg.
checksumzApr 29, 2007
AFAIK wiki still gives PR juice to source links, they only add rel=nofollow to links in the link section.
mrspankehApr 29, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.aftervote.com">http://www.aftervote.com</a> is essentially already doing what wikia aims to do 'someday'
Closed AccountApr 29, 2007
Google started with "Do no evil".But to be you have to be little or sometime a lot more evil.Be to much of nice guys and you will make history like IBM.Successful Business needs evil ruthless criticism and competition.
tenarethApr 29, 2007
@vertinox - Exactly, it avoids attracting spammers because they won't get insta-pagerank. It's better for the Internet as a whole.