Brett_Tabke
msg:145933 | 8:45 pm on Jul 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
no overture bans all indexing via robots.txt. Google is merely obeying it. See the numerous back threads on the subject....
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ogletree
msg:145934 | 8:52 pm on Jul 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
O asked for them to do that.
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blaze
msg:145935 | 9:07 pm on Jul 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Interesting that it shows up on Yahoo in the regular SERP. I guess site-match ignores robots.txt or maybe Yahoo manually manipulates the SERPs?
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oldskool79
msg:145936 | 9:20 pm on Jul 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Why wouldn't overture want their site to show up in Google? I don't see how this could help them.
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Brett_Tabke
msg:145937 | 9:32 pm on Jul 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Don't you think that having your competitors bot crawling all over your website is a bit creepy?
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UK_Web_Guy
msg:145938 | 10:06 pm on Jul 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Ooverture don't want to be indexed by google, but are happy to buy Adwords! A search on Overture shows a listing claiming to be "official site" looks like it is - not an aff site. Might be wrong, but looks the real deal....!
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SlyOldDog
msg:145939 | 11:29 pm on Jul 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
>>Don't you think that having your competitors bot crawling all over your website is a bit creepy? I doubt a robots.txt would stop Google crawling Overture if they had some research to do :)
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oldskool79
msg:145940 | 11:50 pm on Jul 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
| Don't you think that having your competitors bot crawling all over your website is a bit creepy? |
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Not really. Obviously anything that could be found on their site by Google's robot could easily be found by a human at Google scanning the site. Lots of people type URL's into the search box so Overture is risking loss of customers with this tactic. I'm sure they have a valid reason for doing it, I just can't think of what that might be.
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HellaCooL
msg:145941 | 11:59 pm on Jul 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
It is not going strait to official website.
If you click on it it will take you to overture through CJ code. Just look at the IE status bar.
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Shak
msg:145942 | 11:59 pm on Jul 6, 2004 (gmt 0) |
lets make this a monthly discussion I think :) nothing new as BT would say, lets move along now... Shak
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blaze
msg:145943 | 1:01 am on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Lots of new things about this. New people, new ideas, new perspectives. Personally, I'd be curious as to how Overture made it into the Yahoo results when robots are being banned.
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oldskool79
msg:145944 | 1:41 am on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0) |
| Personally, I'd be curious as to how Overture made it into the Yahoo results when robots are being banned. |
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Maybe they signed up for Site Match! ;) BTW, didn't Overture used to be called "goto.com"? Do a search for Overture on Yahoo and the #6 result is for Goto.com, but they're description is a knock on Yahoo.
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