Topic: Robots.txt
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Nose, face, cut, spite: Blocking Google
November 15, 2009 | BuzzMachine
to do that with robots.txt - so go ahead if you want). I love that The Reach Group (TRG), a German consulting company, has quantified [... ] ...
Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair...
November 09, 2009 | Boing Boing
If you do not like it, just add a robots.txt file that tells Google not to index you. Until you do, stop whining and put it back in your pants. Now Rupert has promised to do...
Google Ransom Note
November 08, 2009 | Fimoculous.com
The idea is that publishers could use their robots.txt as a ransom note, selling it to the highest bidder -- Bing or Google. (I suspect this idea takes fire and gets repeated a...
Google Now Scanning RSS, Atom Feeds, May Experiment with Real- Time Protocols in...
October 30, 2009 | Read/WriteWeb
The post advises website owners who are blocking Google's search bot software known as Googlebot from crawling their RSS/Atom feeds to unblock it via their robots.txt file. If...
The Morning Newsfeed: 05. 15. 09
May 15, 2009 | Media News
Blocking Google is easily done with a simple tag called Robots Exclusion Protocol, or robots.txt protocol. INDenver Times Renegades Plan Rocky Mountain Independent (Westword)...
Rupert Murdoch: Let's Charge for Online Content Again
May 07, 2009 | Read/WriteWeb
a line to their robots.txt file anyway). It's Not About the Future of Newspapers - It's about Journalism We also think that it is important to move away from the question of...
RIAA/MPAA hit men private enforcement site indexed by Google
May 14, 2009 | Boing Boing
Thanks to BayTSP's inability to write a robots.txt file, Google has indexed just about every page on their server. You can get a good idea of the kinds of things that the...
Robots.txt on twitter
RT @xbuzz: Word to the wise @TheNewYorkPost saying disallow in robots.txt is NOT a form of web security. http://www.nypost.com/robots.txt
by mavrevMatt, November 24, 2009
Word to the wise @TheNewYorkPost saying disallow in robots.txt is NOT a form of web security. http://www.nypost.com/robots.txt
by xbuzz, November 24, 2009
On O'Reilly @Radar: @carlmalamud reports on the use of robots.txt by .gov sites: http://bit.ly/8xtyYT Data on Factual: http://bit.ly/4E3Jq9
by factualinc, November 24, 2009
@ZenDoodles http://crawler.archive.org. I assume it would follow a robots.txt
by rentzsch, November 24, 2009
@rentzsch Who's spiders? Is there a standard defining proper spider behavior yet? (Last I knew robots.txt wasn't even universally accepted.)
by ZenDoodles, November 24, 2009
How Search Engines Handle the Meta Robots Tag and Robots.txt - http://shar.es/aK0DT #in, #fb
by websuccessteam, November 24, 2009
How Search Engines Handle the Meta Robots Tag and Robots.txt - http://shar.es/aK0DT. Good info here. #in, #fb
by websuccess, November 24, 2009
that's right Googlebots, back off! Just hid the website I made for myself using a robots.txt file. Which sounds way cooler than it is.
by TobitronKahn, November 24, 2009