Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Jochem Maas
Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Jochem Maas wrote: Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: robots.txt will not do what you want it to. Just sniff for those robots' User-Agents (Google, MSN and Yahoo all publish their UA strings on their websites, AFAIK) and send different content if it's one of those.

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Evert | Collab wrote: Lets just put it this way: if you don't want your site indexed, use robots.txt if you want to hide your site from search engines [ which won't even touch your files if you use robots.txt ] check the UA string. I can't imagine a situation where you want to hide your conte

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Brian Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > On Aug 11, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Evert | Collab wrote: > > > First hit on google: > > http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm > > Search engines check for a robots.txt on your site, in the > > robots.txt file you can specify that certain or

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Jochem Maas
Philip Hallstrom wrote: robots.txt will not do what you want it to. Just sniff for those robots' User-Agents (Google, MSN and Yahoo all publish their UA strings on their websites, AFAIK) and send different content if it's one of those. they will hammer you for it eventually - AFAICT all maj

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Philip Hallstrom
robots.txt will not do what you want it to. Just sniff for those robots' User-Agents (Google, MSN and Yahoo all publish their UA strings on their websites, AFAIK) and send different content if it's one of those. they will hammer you for it eventually - AFAICT all major SEs send out their spid

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Jochem Maas wrote: Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: robots.txt will not do what you want it to. Just sniff for those robots' User-Agents (Google, MSN and Yahoo all publish their UA strings on their websites, AFAIK) and send different content if it's one of those. they will hammer you for it eve

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Jochem Maas
Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Brian Dunning wrote: On Aug 11, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Evert | Collab wrote: Use robots.txt 'evil' searchengines will spoof the user-agent string anyway Can you be more specific about what you mean by "use robots.txt"? I just want to cloak for Google, MSN, and Yaho

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Brian Dunning wrote: On Aug 11, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Evert | Collab wrote: Use robots.txt 'evil' searchengines will spoof the user-agent string anyway Can you be more specific about what you mean by "use robots.txt"? I just want to cloak for Google, MSN, and Yahoo. I couldn't care less about

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Brian Dunning
On Aug 11, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Evert | Collab wrote: First hit on google: http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm Search engines check for a robots.txt on your site, in the robots.txt file you can specify that certain or all search engines shouldn't index your site I know

Re: [PHP] Blatantly Evil Question

2005-08-11 Thread Brian Dunning
On Aug 11, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Evert | Collab wrote: Use robots.txt 'evil' searchengines will spoof the user-agent string anyway Can you be more specific about what you mean by "use robots.txt"? I just want to cloak for Google, MSN, and Yahoo. I couldn't care less about what any other search