On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Andre Engels <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote: >> When the Italians did their blackout, Google asked us to block them >> (!) from bits.wm.o (our JS/CSS domain), which in the specific case of >> the Italian blackout had the effect of not honoring the blackout at >> all. >> >> I'm guessing we'd probably have to block search engines from enwiki >> entirely to avoid the blackout screwing things up, yeah. > > It seems Google has advised to serve a 503 (Service unavailable) HTTP > code during blackouts to avoid them influencing their search engine. > Here, have a citation for that,
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