It's an option, but, as you know, robots.txt tends to be a bit unreliable.
I'll see what we can do for the next server update. Al. -- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Murphy Sent: 17 July 2009 13:30 To: [email protected] Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Update on Android Developer Challenge 2 Al Sutton wrote: > At the moment our view is that we want to protect against users coming to > AndAppStore from a search engine and ending up on a pre-release app download > page thinking it's a full application, hence the requirement for a login. > > This is something we can change, so I'm opening the floor and would > appreciate the communities views. Couldn't you control that, at least for friendly search engines, via robots.txt? Put the pre-release ones in a separate directory or something that gives you a unique pattern you can use to direct spiders away from them. Just a thought -- I was reading about the latest Google/newspaper dust-up over robots.txt, so it's on my mind... -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Warescription: Three Android Books, Plus Updates, $35/Year --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
