My first post to this list (http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008164.html) was actually asking this very question about using microformats to show which areas of a web page spiders should concentrate on.
Ryan sent me the link to the robots-exclusion page but with the recent crunch at work I haven't gone back to it. I'm not with Yahoo or any other search engine but I think it's something that I would like to look at further and with Yahoo's news it would seem like sense to dig into this a little more. Dave On 5/8/07, Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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