On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:59:52 +1300 (NZDT)
John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Hadley Rich wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:19, John Carter wrote:
> >> Has anyone been spidered by Google recently, if so, can you have a
> >> look in your /var/log/apache/access.log to see what the google
> >> spider reports its useragent as?
> >
> > Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
> 
> Ooo. I _like_ that! So all those snooty sites that hide their content 
> behind "You need IE to view this site" are not getting googled. Yet 
> another reason to love Google!

I'm not so sure that such silliness prevents spidering

> 
> I had wondered why I was seeing so few of that class of idiocy of late, I 
> thought people had become more intelligent.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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