Comments on: Don’t Hide From Google

By: mahesh hariani

mahesh hariani — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:50:16 +0000

i agree with gaurav, google is really a friend in many ways - so helpful to search useful information, it’s unbeleivable at times. gaurav may respond to my e mail mahesh.hariani@yahoo.co.in

By: Gaurav Hariani

Gaurav Hariani — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:23:46 +0000

The same idea extends to allowing people to view Google’s cached pages.
Google’s cache of Cafe Au Lait’s pages can’t be viewed … due to the Javascript.

By: John Cowan

John Cowan — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:54:16 +0000

Not directly, no. But if a user-writable page (like a forum page) is hidden from legitimate search engines, than planting links on it to get Googlejuice will not work, since the link is hidden too.

A better way to handle this is with “rel=’nofollow’”, which causes Google to ignore just the link.

By: Hemebond

Hemebond — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:19:49 +0000

bbercik: Web-bots used by bad-guys don’t obey the rules. Therefore they are not affected in any way by robots.txt.

By: bbercik

bbercik — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:58:48 +0000

Have you considered that the reason the support forum software could be hiding itself from Google is to prevent it from being of any use to web-bots that place artificial postings that link to bad guys’ sites? I’ve seen many good forums ruined by the web-bots.

By: Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:48:14 +0000

So many times I’ve run in to this kind of thing. It boggles the mind. Another problem is support forums that use dynamic URLs that don’t index very well. I bought a Linksys Network Storage Link and it was painful to use their support forum but I wasn’t getting the results from Google. (Maybe they block bots also, but judging by the URLs, Google wouldn’t get very much from them in any case.)

Even Microsoft’s Knowledge Base results show up in Google, so they seem to get it. (Or used to–haven’t searched for MS/Windows error messages lately.)