I disagree.  Google bot has been nothing but a nuisance, continuously probing 
my tool with different queries.  It has drained resources needlessly, and was 
quite glad that tool labs had it blocked.

Cyberpower678
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> On Oct 19, 2014, at 21:30, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Why would we want to restrict google indexing of the whole cluster? There are 
> tools of many different nature deployed there, seems that indexing or not 
> should be configured on a instance per instance basis.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Maximilian Doerr <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Who protested to that, and why would that be a problem?
> 
> Cyberpower678
> English Wikipedia Account Creation Team
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
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> [mailto:[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Marc A. Pelletier
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 7:29 PM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Labs-l] Google bot
> 
> On 10/19/2014 03:50 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
> > I vaguely remember that indexing bots (like the Google one) were
> > filtered out by Labs already?
> 
> They were, for some time, but then I got some fairly vehement protestations 
> that tools being unindexed by Google was a problem.
> 
> -- Marc
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