[thelist] robots and the whitehouse.gov site
Wil Cone
wil at inaridesign.com
Tue Feb 3 01:24:39 CST 2004
According to some, it's the WH's attempt to block Google caching, so
text changes aren't easy to discover...
http://shock-awe.info/archive/000965.php
- Wil
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> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Brian Cummiskey
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> Subject: [thelist] robots and the whitehouse.gov site
>
>
> Stumbling on google for some robot info, I came to the whitehouse.gov
> robot file [1].
>
> They disallow a LOT of directories. I don't know how large the site
> really is, but it's a ton of 1st level directories.
>
> My question is, why would anyone ever want to disallow their content
> from being indexed? I can understand the want to disallow
> yourdomain.com/personalstuff or something like that, but why
> pretty much
> all your content?
>
> thoughts?
>
> [1] - http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt
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