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Re: Google's robots.txt

#33
post #9

Mine is more awesome: http://logotype.se/robots.txt

Heh, if only Yandex and Baidu respected robots.txt.

I'm sure that Baidu respects robots.txt.

This site coolshell.cn is boycotting baidu, so it tells Baiduspider that it doesn't want to be indexed by baidu.

Baidu respects this and doesn't index anything from this website.

Re: Google's robots.txt

#35
post #25
post #16

facebook's... https://www.facebook.com/robots.txt

> Notice: Crawling Facebook is prohibited unless you have express written Wow, really? Who put up this sign?

Someone with 80 character lines enforced in their editor? Here's the second line...

> permission. See: http://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php

Re: Google's robots.txt

#36
post #16

facebook's... https://www.facebook.com/robots.txt

That really blows my mind. I mean, how can they say that's any kind of "agreement"?

I someone writes a curl/wget script wrapper & points it to the top 10 websites, they don't enter into any kind of written contract or agreement.

Re: Google's robots.txt

#39
post #8

Unrelated but it looks like www.aol.com's robots.txt is served as text/html http://www.aol.com/robots.txt Is this a common mistake?

Yes, from the server side's mishandling of TXT extension. Probably the server put the MIME type in the HTTP header as "HTML" instead of TXT, and the browser renders the page as such.
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