Steve Rubel's Blog reports that Google finally has imminent plans to end the blog comment spam that is rampant all over the web.

Blogs rank very well in search engines, so consequently people have been utilizing this as a place to spam their URLs, thus improving their page rank. This would however mean some changes in general as to how blogs generate traffic and PR.

I have personally discovered several interesting blogs simply by looking at my websites' statistics and checking Google backlinks.

Steve