Danny Sullivan writes: > To be clear, these are not new robots.txt rules. It is a proposed new > standard that none of the major search engines but Exalead supports. This > explains more: http://searchengineland.com/071129-120258.php
Thanks! From what I see, ACAP makes sense. But are these new robots.txt rules? + Yes: ACAP places its rules in the robots.txt file; in that sense, it is literally nothing but new robots.txt rules. + Yes: ACAP's rules include and refine the possibilities of the existing robots.txt rules. + Yes: ACAP's rules work exactly like the existing robots.txt rules: clients are supposed to pick them up, somehow categorize themselves and their activities correctly according to the rules, and abide; but there is no attempt to technically enforce compliance in any way. (I think it would be helpful to clearly explain this on the ACAP site.) + No: ACAP does not supersede your existing robots.txt rules, you can introduce them without breaking robots.txt for non-ACAP-aware visitors. -- Reinier Post TU Eindhoven _______________________________________________ Robots mailing list [email protected] http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/robots
