That gives me an idea. What if Google were to provide free anti-spam tools like Akismet that integrate with forums, blogs, and wikis? They could detect the spam patterns and essentially blacklist those spam sites from the search engine. With enough sites using their tools, Google could build a significant dataset of what these sites are trying to do to generate spam links.
Wouldn't detected who's trying to generate link spam be a fairly effective way of removing them from search engine results?
Wouldn't detected who's trying to generate link spam be a fairly effective way of removing them from search engine results?