AnSearch in the press again

In trouble for letting Google archive it's cache

[sparticus]

Just found an article on ZDNet [zdnet.com.au] about the way AnSearch is copying people's homepages, storing them in a /cached directory and then letting Google index the directory. Seems webmasters aren't very happy with this.

"If Google and Yahoo don't want that data, they can not index it," (the AnSearch CEO) told ZDNet Australia. "It's not up to us to tell the other people in our space what they can and can't index."

[edited by: bill at 7:41 am (utc) on Oct. 19, 2005]
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[Chris_D]

What a bunch of clowns. Did you see this as well?

the next version of Ansearch's 'spider' software .... would ignore Web sites which explicitly opted out of general search engine indexing through their public configuration files.

So sometime in the future they will obey robots.txt - but are incapable of using it themselves.

They obviously have no clue.

[sparticus]

Check back issues of ZDNet and you'll see all sorts of disturbing stuff from them..