Topic: Web Robots  (Read 1870 times)

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Re: Web Robots
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2005, 10:02:09 am »
I remember reading somewhere that Google and possible Yahoo ignore that protocol now. Not sure how accurate that info is though...
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Re: Web Robots
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2005, 03:15:52 pm »
Google and Yahoo both are still looking for robots.txt, not sure if they are heeding it or not (could test relatively easily).

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Re: Web Robots
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2005, 10:01:50 pm »
If you do let me know, but I think it was one of those ranting blogs that included gloom and doom forcasts for the future of net.
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Re: Web Robots
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2005, 03:05:23 am »
Ummm doom and gloom?

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