On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps more importantly, I don't see any actual
argument for *not* using
nofollow. We're not here to drive pagerank for other websites, and our
doing so can be harmful to those sites, or to the article subject.
Wikipedia's purpose may not be to drive PageRank, but nonetheless I think
the argument for using nofollow is pretty clear. Why would Wikipedia want
to purposely make search engine results less useful? The question here is
whether spammers are smart enough to get around us and boost their PageRank
artifically, which seems to be the case.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science