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> what's to stop a spider from indexing it? a robots.txt that forbids a particular spider from accessing the content. This assumes that the spider does respec
by chollida1 17y ago
> what's to stop a spider from indexing it?
a robots.txt that forbids a particular spider from accessing the content.
This assumes that the spider does respect the robots.txt, which googlebot does.
- Tichy 17y agoIs there a law against it? I thought robots.txt is more of a convention. However, Google already said that they would heed the robots.txt.
- chollida1 17y ago> Is there a law against it? I don't know. I'd imagine that there isn't a law specifically written for robots.txt and scraping. If a case went to court I'd imagine it would be settled based on laws meant for things like "keep out" and "No trespassing" signs:)
- itgoon 17y agoI think not heeding robots.txt would cause them more problems than it would solve. Currently, it gets used for more than "deny/allow all" - it is selective. If I have to worry about stuff I don't want indexed being indexed, then I'm going to block all crawling. Yes, I know that wouldn't be easy, but I wouldn't be alone in my sentiment.