2010/4/7 NoOp <[email protected]> > On 04/07/2010 10:47 AM, John Meyer wrote: > > > http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2010032901035OPMS?utm_source=DaronBabin&utm_medium=RSSFeeds&utm_content=GoogComp&utm_campaign=twitter > > > > > > Now, the article is correct in that none of the first links are directly > > to OpenOffice.org. However, it fails to mention that a lot of them have > > secondary click-through links to the site with no pay wall. So, is this > > an effective way to kill off OpenOffice? > > http://www.katonda.com/blog/922/microsoft-bing-trying-kill-open-office > <quote> > UPDATE: A representative from Microsoft Bing team informed Katonda > about this issue. Below is the response: > > "We’ve learned that OpenOffice.org is not showing up in Bing search > results because OpenOffice.org is preventing the Bing crawler from > indexing their site. We’re reaching out to them now to try and resolve > the issue." > > We will keep you posted with the development. > </quote> >
Is OOo really preventing the Bing crawler from indexing the OOo site ? For some reason, I should like to see conformation from a more objective source than the Bing team.... Henri
