[Robots] Yahoo evolving robots.txt, finally

2004-03-12 Thread ogjunk-robots
I am surprised that after all that talk about adding new semantic elements to robots.txt several years ago, nobody commented that the new Yahoo crawler (former Inktomi crawler) took a brave step in that direction by adding Crawl-delay: syntax.

RE: [Robots] Yahoo evolving robots.txt, finally

2004-03-13 Thread ogjunk-robots
--- Matthew Meadows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Walter. So do I, partially. :) There's a lot of variables that should have been considered for this new value. If nothing else the specification should have called for the time in milliseconds, or otherwise allow for fractional