Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
Brian Dunning wrote:
On Aug 11, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Evert | Collab wrote:
Use robots.txt
'evil' searchengines will spoof the user-agent string anyway
Can you be more specific about what you mean by "use robots.txt"?
I just want to cloak for Google, MSN, and Yahoo. I couldn't care less
about what any other search engine (evil or not) does or sees.
robots.txt will not do what you want it to.
Just sniff for those robots' User-Agents (Google, MSN and Yahoo all
publish their UA strings on their websites, AFAIK) and send different
content if it's one of those.
they will hammer you for it eventually - AFAICT all major SEs send out their
spiders occasionally with faked user-agent strings - to catch out crap like
this.
oh and the guy that invented php is a really bigcheese down at yahoo...
and he reads this list :-) though I doubt he has the time or desire to chase
you personally.
I would recommend you don't go down this road. it's bad for your business in the
longer term and its bad for the web because your filling it with shite.
Jasper
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