Google aims to outsmart search tricksters

Now some people seem to think that this will end the scourge of comment spam, where people [or, more to the point, machines...] post 'comments' in weblogs that are nothing more than link-filled ads aimed at manipulating Google's page-rank algorithm by artificially increasing the number of links to the spammer's web-pages.

Problem is, not only will many not install the software necessary to allow these new controls to work [it ads a rel="nofollow" attribute to anchor tags...] but it still won't stop spammers posting crap to people's blogs. MT-blacklist is as essential as ever...