Well, while Google and MSN are talking about the bots, Yahoo is talking about integrating the change into their index. Now I am not a “fancy big city webmaster”, but isnt the index supposed to be just that – an index, the final front of the results? If they will integrate something into the index, to me it sound as they will pose a penalty of a kind to the websites which got linked with the tag.
I turlly hope this would not be the case, because everybody would suffer, big time, and it would be a pretty stupid idea…
What I am pissed off about this, is that a bunch of highly paid engeneers tought about this for months to come out with some half-ass solution, and on top of that, give it a high PR, so it would seem like all the problems have been solved, when all they did is give more stress to the webmasters about the “bugs” we could expect from this new tag…
I am sorry to be so negative about it, but if Google could index the New York Library, they should have no problem dealing with the blog links, if they really want to spend time and money on it.
( Not to be confused with “They could put a man on the moon, but…” )