On May 4, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Ben Ward wrote:
On 4 May 2007, at 22:19, Ted Drake wrote:
What’s the traction for something like this and “no-follow” to get
integrated into the microformat platform?
Well, robots-nocontent is not part of the the robots-exclusion
draft, which in itself has not been updated for over 18 months.
I contacted Priyank yesterday and he confirmed that Search have not
implemented any of the robots-exclusion draft itself, nor have they
implemented an opposite ‘robots-content’ class.
I will email him again to see if we can get a concise specification
of the indexing behaviour for robots-nocontent page sections so
that it can at least be documented. If Peter Janes is still active
here or if anyone else has an interest in picking up the robots-
exclusion spec then it will be up to them and their work within the
process to determine if the implementation can be documented as
part of it.
It seems like as good a time to ask; does anyone in the community
still have an active interest in Robots-Exclusion? Are there any
implementations?
(Since I know disclosure is appreciated: If it's not already clear
from the communications documented in this message, I recently
started working for Yahoo! Europe. With relevance to this issue
though, I am not in any way involved in Yahoo! Search. In a more
general sense, at this time, none of my contributions to this list
are representative of Yahoo! and so on and so forth yada yada)
AFAIK, there has been 0 interest in robots-exclusion since before we
even launched mf.org. However, if yahoo search is interested in
implementing this, I'd encourage anyone with influence there to point
them at our wiki and encourage them to go through the process.
-ryan
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