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What data does Google harvest without renumeration? When it comes to PageRank, the implicit offer is: Allow google to use your links (intra-site and extra-site
by true_religion 16y ago
What data does Google harvest without renumeration?
When it comes to PageRank, the implicit offer is: Allow google to use your links (intra-site and extra-site) in its algorithm, and it will make your site searchable via Google.
If you don't want Google to use your 'hard work' of collating and vetting links to other sites, then disallow the Googlebot via robots.txt
On the other hand, Microsoft refuses to allow anyway to disallow click traffic patterns involving your site to be used in its algorithm. They are thus mining the links from your site to another without even having to renumerate you by giving you a chance to be indexed in their engine.
- wnoise 16y ago> Microsoft refuses to allow anyway to disallow click traffic patterns involving your site Because that information doesn't belong to the site to which it is associated, but to the user.
- grovulent 16y agoThat's a good point. I didn't really have a clear view on that matter. I just wanted to emphasise that however that discussion bore out - it is irrelevant to the argument against Bing.