Thought we might be interested. ----- Forwarded message from Tom Adelstein <tadelste at charter.net> -----
> > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/23328/index.html > > Hello, > > I could not track the source of old content showing up at the top > of google searches on my name. According to the number of hits I > generate, I have a significant mind share on Google. Finally, we > tracked down the problem and found that MSNbot was hammering and > multiplying links old and irrelevant content, pushing that above > recent articles about Linux in Government, case studies, etc. > > I also found other open source advocates on the web trying to find > out why they couldn't stop MSNbot using a standard robots.txt > directive in the root directory of their web sites. Some of the > complaints related to increased fees for bandwidth. > > In this article, I discuss the issue. I will also post the fix we > discovered by accident. BTW, a standard redirect will not work. > > I'm not very pleased to discover Microsoft is manipulating the content on the > Internet. > > Tom Adelsten > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.port5.com Encryption: A powerful algorithmic encoding technique employed in the creation of computer manuals. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
