You may remember me discussing Andrew Orlowski's article on The Register about how Trackbacks are going to destroy Google. In my post you can read about the problem with Google indexing virtually blank pages, and how you can fix this on your blog quite easily via the use of robots.txt.
I was just looking over on the Six Log, which is the blog of Six Apart - the company behind Movable Type. Mena has posted about the Trackback issues and there are also a list of Trackbacks to this post from other blogs, mostly the opinion is Andrew's story is incorrectly blaming the innocent Trackback & MT for Google indexing them. Really, it is Google that indexes them, so if anyone Google is to blame - but since MT is making the blank pages, does that mean MT is responsible for making Google index almost blank pages?
There is an easy fix, in my opinion. Although, you would probably be better to stop using popup windows for your comments at least if you adopt my method so comments can still be indexed easily.
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