On 4/18/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/04/07, Info Control infodmz@gmail.com wrote:
Related question: was the nofollow change for all links with search
engines
permanent?
Brion says he will happily put in something finer-grained when someone writes code to that effect.
(whenever this is pointed out to those objecting, there usually follows silence and the occasional tumbleweed - it seems complaining is easier than programming.)
It's crazily difficult to program this thing. Those who advocate, say, not nofollow-ing links older than X amount of time, probably don't realise how immensely difficult this would be. You would have to first isolate all external links (no easy task, but fortunately I think we have one standard format for external links), and then go back through all the revisions in the history up to a certain point, and make sure each revision contained this link (not as easy as it sounds). As a programmer, I would not want to take this task on.
Johnleemk