cabowabo - 4:06 am on Jun 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

Ah-ha, I'm going to solve this issue right now... User-agent: Teoma Disallow: /

PageOneResults gets my vote for "hero of the day" ... let's all solve Ask's repeated non-function in the market, and blantantly the same speech each time at PubCon and block their bot.

I have over 500 domains as an affiliate and the measureable referral traffic from Ask is below a half percent.

I am going to deny their bot ... great idea. Why allow their bot to use my resources yet serve no "love" back.

Maybe if there are enough "denials" they will catch a clue and clean things up.

And just to confirm, I have been in conversations at PubCon with their engineers about getting things cleaned up ... six months later, they are making excuses why they weren't fixed.

Let's all move on.

Cabo