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)
>>
>

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