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Not evil at all. Letting someone crawl your site is a business decision. If you think the resource cost on your servers is worth the added traffic that the se
by pchristensen 19y ago
Not evil at all. Letting someone crawl your site is a business decision. If you think the resource cost on your servers is worth the added traffic that the search engine can send, then go for it. For this site, I would guess the resource cost is more (because of storing continuations) and the benefit of traffic is less (since pg doesn't even want it). Therefore, it's a good decision on pg's part and Yahoo's loss.
- ntoshev 19y agoIt is evil. A lot of the evil things out there are business decision (e.g. Microsoft monopoly practices). Even if this decision has a positive net effect on the community, as a result the world is likely to be worse off (all non-google searchers get suboptimal search, on this site and elsewhere).