Delicious: Past, Present and Future

Delicious, or del.icio.us as it used to be, was founded in 2003 by Jason Schachter. After growing in popularity relatively fast, it was purchased by Yahoo! in 2005.
For the following 3 years, nothing really changed at Delicious and it quickly became known more as a sensible bookmarking service than anything particularly cutting edge. Shadowed by … [more]

February 22, 2010 | Filed Under Delicious, Social Media | 1 Comment

When Did Delicious Start ‘Silent Bans’?

delicious When Did Delicious Start Silent Bans? picture Delicious has long been known for their outward dislike for search marketers and even went as far as to nofollow the ENTIRE site a while back to deter any potential use of Delicious as a marketing tool.

Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious, spoke at the first SMX Social Media conference in 2007, and said that they had implemented the nofollow tag because they had no mechanism in place to prevent spam and needed someway to prevent people from trying to abuse Delicious.

“If you believe in collective memory and collective voting, why nofollow links? Because they are trying to discourage spam. Danny Sullivan wonders if it actually is a deterrent. They say yes. And if they could eliminate spam other ways would they get rid of the nofollow? They said maybe, but they think that having nofollow keeps away the motivation for spamming.” – SearchEngineLand
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