pageoneresults - 4:37 am on Mar 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

Does it not make sense to use method="post" instead of method="get" for search forms?

It sure does and thanks for bringing it up. The above along with this (as mentioned above by g1smd)...

<meta name="robots" content="none">

...will keep your search results page out of the index. I've done it, and I've done it many times successfully.

There is one drawback, those search results cannot be bookmarked, emailed, etc. For the basic user anyway. ;)

And, if you really want to get granular with blocking the bots...

<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive">

<meta name="msnbot" content="noindex, nofollow">

In theory, and in practice, the standard...

<meta name="robots" content="none">

Should be sufficient to block all bots. There may be times though where you just want to block Googlebot and/or MSNBot.