Re: Spammer web harvesting tool countermeasures
"Deepak Jain" <deepak@jain.com> said the following at 10/30/97 6:56 PM:
And wouldn't we, in turn, see some kind of problems arise with legitimate search engines because of this?
If you downloaded it and looked at it, you would have noticed that it follows search engine guidelines by adding the appropriate <META> tag to the HTML as well as the fact, that you can also use the robots.txt file to block it. Of course this also breaks down if spammer robots actually follow the rules...but how many of those do you think that there are? ;-) -jon Jon (no h) S. Stevens Web Engineer j@clearink.com Clear Ink and The Internet Weather Report <http://www.clearink.com/> | <http://www.internetweather.com/>
I didn't download it, but I looked at the first page. I figured that if it relied on someone setting up robots.txt correctly, there would be a lot of people who don't do it correctly and we'll see installations of the thing slow down search engines w/o good controls. Auto Meta Tags would certainly help, except the next generation web scrapers will be set to ignore them too. -Deepak. On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Jon Stevens wrote:
"Deepak Jain" <deepak@jain.com> said the following at 10/30/97 6:56 PM:
And wouldn't we, in turn, see some kind of problems arise with legitimate search engines because of this?
If you downloaded it and looked at it, you would have noticed that it follows search engine guidelines by adding the appropriate <META> tag to the HTML as well as the fact, that you can also use the robots.txt file to block it.
Of course this also breaks down if spammer robots actually follow the rules...but how many of those do you think that there are? ;-)
-jon
Jon (no h) S. Stevens Web Engineer j@clearink.com Clear Ink and The Internet Weather Report <http://www.clearink.com/> | <http://www.internetweather.com/>
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