At 10:45 PM 1/17/2001 +0000, John Lind wrote:
>At 22:26 1/17/01, Simon E. wrote:
>>You could use non-indexed pages (don't submit your URL to search engines and
>>don't have other sites linking to yours). I wonder if these image search
>>robots can access photopoint folders, for example?
>>
>>Simon E.
>
>The "spiders" search an entire site. In the case of Lycos, it looks for
>multimedia rich pages/sites, makes thumbnails of the images, and indexes them
>to the image file source (not to the html page on which they appear). Aspects
>of this technique are legally controversial concerning intellectual property
>rights. There will be increasing litigation over it within the next several
>years.
>
>There is a way of deflecting "spiders" or "bots" from specified areas of a
>site provided the wiring for it has been left in them. I don't think it's a
>matter of non-indexed pages. For those who have their own sites and want to
>do this, see the following about how to add site code that restricts what
>spiders can access:
> http://www.kollar.com/robots.html
Yeah, I debated whether or not to put a "robots.txt" file on the Gallery when I
first put it up, and decided against it -- I wanted the Gallery to be found in
search engines.
Just not like this. :-/
Garth
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