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They proved that Microsoft uses clickstream data to rank websites, and in 7% of manufactured cases that's all the data they have? I think this is exactly as pe
by benologist 16y ago
They proved that Microsoft uses clickstream data to rank websites, and in 7% of manufactured cases that's all the data they have?
I think this is exactly as petty and silly as last week's news, and now they get to spend a week explaining how this occurred and that they do obey robots.txt.
- mattmanser 16y agoExcept that this time it isn't Microsoft themselves crying foul.
- moultano 16y agoEveryone else in this thread has already explained that microsoft is not properly using robots.txt by having case insensitive urls, hence why these urls were indexed.
- benologist 16y agoThe Bing context might suck for you guys, but this is your problem - case insensitivity is every Windows server, not just the Bing website. Why would anyone hosted on Windows have to specify every possible spelling variation to keep search engines out of a folder or file? Here's another example: http://www.ifma.org/robots.txt http://www.ifma.org/robots.txt These guys are disallowing /pv/ http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:ifma.org/pv/ http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8... You guys are indexing /PV/
- andrewcooke 16y agoMaybe I'm misunderstanding your argument, but I think you're confusing the Windows file system with the URLs that a web service provides.
- benologist 16y agoThe problem exists when that web service is on Windows - ASP.NET, Cold Fusion, static html sites, probably a negligible percent of PHP sites etc - /pv is /PV is /pV is /Pv
- jeroen 16y ago"Be strict in what you emit, liberal in what you accept." Bing failed the first part, Google the second. Both should fix that.