Google has just implemented something new that is really going to stop comment spam:

Any link with a rel=”nofollow” attribute included will not be used in page rank calculations. So adding this attribute to any hyperlinks given in blog comments will stop the comment spammers because they won’t get page rank from it any more.

Hooray. SixApart has already announced support for MovableType and TypePad and say support for LiveJournal is coming soon.

No word about Wordpress yet. I’m sure we’ll see something in the next 24 hours.

Wonderful news. The comment spam has really been getting me down.

thanks Joi