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Om Malik: "I tag my post, Technorati benefits, and despite all that, my tags help spammers who clog my RSS readers gain more readers. Thats 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." -The Dark Side of Technorati Tags I've said this before, tags belong down up on the client. Get those search engines out of clouds. As for spammers - that's the price of Web anonymity. Anonymity, last time I checked (yes, I did check) is not a neccessary feature to make the web work....