Hello, Thanks for the explanation, it clarified the finer points of how the adsense crawler works which I wasn't aware of. I assumed it crawled the landing page only, not the page on which the ad appears. We'll look into it. Thanks!
- Bruno Oliveira (Google) On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 6:32:44 PM UTC-3, anatoly wrote: > > Any update on the issue? > The minimum orkut team should do is fix the bug of requestNavigateTo > implementation > > Currently requestNavigateTo redirects to /Application.aspx instead of > /Application and it blocks adsense crawler. > I'd suggest to work closely with adsense team, you're the same company, I > can't coordinate your internal cooperation. > Just ask Adsense team how much crawler errors do they get on google.com.br, > I bet there are billions. > > > Please fix and update, otherwise it makes counterproductive to use adsense > on apps. > > > thanks > > > > > > On Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:08:35 PM UTC+2, Bruno Oliveira (Google) > wrote: > >> We do not plan to modify robots.txt at the moment... but as far as I >> understand, the crawler would not need to crawl over /Application, because >> /PublicAppInfo does *not* automatically redirect to /Application unless >> the user is logged in and has the app installed. >> >> Since the crawler is not an Orkut user, this redirection would not happen >> and it would never see /Application or any other page. At least that's how >> it *should* happen :-) I've tested /PublicAppInfo myself while not >> logged in (which mimics the way the adsense crawler would see it) and >> indeed it does not perform any redirections that I could tell... >> >> Thanks! >> >> - >> Bruno Oliveira (Google) >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "orkut Developer Forum" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/opensocial-orkut/-/9jiojnb1hLoJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en.

