What is Google doing to combat the effects of comment spam?

The "nofollow" attribute works very well, but spammer post there comment even if this attribute is set. It looks like a spammer think that people some of the visitors will follow the link. The bad thing on some google blogs is that they have have problems too. This is pretty annoying if your subscribed to the blog comments. Avery effective solution is to block countries where most spammer come from...