Microsoft, Yahoo and Google have developed a detailed documentation about how they implement the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP).
The search engines’ robots go wherever they want as long as they find links to follow. This means that they may index everything they find on your site or server unless you tell them explicitly not to.
There […]
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Scour is a brand new meta social search engine that encourages voting and commentary on each of its query results drawn from Google, Yahoo! And Live Search. And they will pay you to use their site.
You score points for searching, voting and commenting and if you invite your friends, Scour will add 20% […]
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The Icahn rebellion
Microsoft responded by saying […]
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