trackback borks google and every other search engine

because trackback urls are appended to nodes as *links* search engines crawl the trackback links and they get listed as pages in the search results.

very very bad!

Why?

Because Google, et alia, will list your trackback link as a *page* but if you follow the link from Google it always goes to the homepage instead of the original page!

That is why movable type and other blog software put there trackback links as plain text.

From a user standpoint it is absolutely imperative that trackback links not get mistaken for pages by search engines because the search engine listing of a bogus trackback has the *same title* as the real page on your site and people who come to your site from a search engine link of a tackback url get lost and frustrated!