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How to Screw Up the Launch of a Multi-Million Dollar Web Property

• delano 16y ago
  They most likely did it on purpose to limit the amount of traffic.
• dholowiski 16y ago
  Summary: Google launches new web site, tells self not to index the site, said site is not findable by search. Oops.
  • some1else 16y ago
    Telling the Google Bot not to index the site is nearly impossible to do by mistake. Somebody added nofollow specs to the head and anchor tags, with what seems to be some inexplicable purpose in mind. Instead, omission of robots.txt and sitemap.xml is a more appropriate reason to raise an eyebrow.
• mikecane 16y ago
  It makes me wonder just how grand a disaster Google Editions will turn out to be.
• chopsueyar 16y ago
  This is pretty bad.
• tzury 16y ago
  there you go. Google bought like.com and turn it into boutiques.com the code snippet presented in the article shows a css from lkimg.com which is a domain registered under like.com. viewing the source of http://www.like.com/aboutus.py http://www.like.com/aboutus.py shows that `BotController.py` ... var bot = "/BotController.py" ... That is to say, re-branding must go deeper than just replacing the logo on the envelopes and website ;-)