Nah, they are just “washing” their hands, they could certainly do much better than that. What about the comments already posted???
And another thing, Yahoo!Search says:
By adding a rel=”nofollow” attribute to hyperlinks, webmasters and weblog owners can tell search engines that the links are effectively untrusted. For example, this:
Becomes this:
We think this is a good first step toward significantly reducing the spam burden on bloggers and weblog hosting companies. It’s great to see so many players on board. In the coming weeks you can expect to see the changes reflected in our web index.
Now, if Yahoo would punish you for the new tag, all I have to do is post links to my competitors on my homepage with the new tag in them, and I should expect them to become “untrusted”?!? Even drop from the index?
3 words: “WHAT THE ****?”