[NTLK] Re - Search robots

From: Frank Gruendel (fg2_at_pda-soft.de)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 17:58:11 EDT


>I guess this is more of a question for Victor,
but wouldn't a 'bot be
>defeated by adding the meta tag "no bots" to the
header of the
>message? ... or adding appropriate headers via
JavaScript's 'docwrite'
>command ...?

About as reliably as putting a "Keep off" sign on
your fence to keep
off thieves I'd think. I mean, it's up to the
search robot's programmer
if the robot even looks at the metatags or not.
A colleage of mine recently came up with a good
idea to confuse
search robots that are searching websites. Have a
look at the
email address you see (or don't see) at
http://www.pda-soft.de/ge_impressum.html
and try what happens if you enable / disable
javascript. I'd think
most current robots will fail here.

Frank

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