Cuil denies spamming our blogs with comment spam

Cuil’s official denial of comment spam with cuil.com link

“We’ve received a few reports of spam comments on various blogs that “advertise” Cuil, among other sites. We at Cuil would like to assure everyone out there that we have nothing to do with this. We have not and would not engage in this activity. It is likely that someone is posting links to sites such as ours in an effort to disguise their true intent and trick comment filtering systems. Search engine guru Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land has commented on one post agreeing with this line of thinking.
So, to put the record straight: it’s not cool, and it’s not us. We use the Web too, and these kinds of things annoy us as much as they annoy you.
As a side note, we encourage webmasters to use the nofollow attribute for links in their comments and forums. Google (and others) indicate they use this as a signal to ignore links. If this practice becomes more common, perhaps we can discourage these people from bothering with these posts in the first place.
Happy searching and enjoy the holiday season!”

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