14th April 2009 - Link Blog
Counting the ways that rev="canonical" hurts the Web. Mark Nottingham complains about misapplied trust (a page can falsely claim to be the canonical URL for another page), the easy confusion between rev and rel and the lack of discussion with relevant communities.
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