Google recruiting sites for their index?

[lazerzubb]

[lists.debian.org...]

Huh? are they recruiting sites for their index?

Also noted by Google weblog at [google.blogspace.com...]

Or is this just a April's fool Pre-Joke?

[edited by: lazerzubb at 10:22 am (utc) on Mar. 26, 2003]

[creative craig]

I have seen this a couple of times before, cant remember where though :(

Craig

[Tor]

It looks like Google have turned into spammers:

[studioz.tv ]

[Shak]

my source informs me that NO, Gabriela Valdes at Google.

either I am going to look like an idiot, or something real weird taking place.

Shak

(personally I can NOT see them sending unsolicited emails for standard serps, to be honest they have not even started sending these out for Adwords or Premium Listings yet, so free traffic, doubt it)

[chiyo]

Hmm... at least they didnt ask for a reciprocal link..

:)

[misja]

http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2003/debian-www-200303/msg00211.html
Huh? are they recruiting sites for their index?

276,000 results from debian.org in the Google index ... including old ones and new ones from the freshbot ...

[dotremy]

The emails are mentioning a robot.txt not robots.txt