[thelist] Re: Google and redirect handling

[Rob Smith]

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Any redirect on the homepage will make you invisible to the search engines.
However, there is an easy way around this. Do serverside browser detection
and redirect from there.

If a user agent is any browser,  redirect.  If the user agent  is not a
browser, send them to an HTML page.
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Although this sounds a whole lot like white box testing, it may be
inefficient. There are tons of browsers out there with all the versions. Do
YOU know how to recognize MM Contribute's browser?

What if, in 2005, Longhorn hits your front door? not the animal but Windows
newest OS? Granted I don't know a whole lot about it, it won't be your
typical browser. It'll be integrated. 

Of course all this is speculation but you get the idea ... "What if?"

Rob