The Dark Side of Technorati Tags

really interesting observation. On one hand I am impressed by the ingenuity of spammers, but on the other I am discouraged that every more forward to make the Internet more useful makes it more lucrative for spammers.

Link: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog � The Dark Side of Technorati Tags.

So this is where I lose the plot - I tag my post, Technorati benefits, and despite all that, my tags help spammers who clog my RSS readers gain more readers. That’s absolutely rotten! So essentially the spammers can write a script, generate tags, stay high on the Technorati listings and fool people into visiting their sites. By tagging I am helping this scumbags, the RSS-link blog spammers. This is clearly not going to help Technorati (or infact anyone’s reputation) as a good search tool.