KDE in Google's Index

Navindra Umanee navindra at cs.mcgill.ca
Wed Mar 19 19:33:24 UTC 2003


Hi,

Gabriela, could you clarify the problem?  Please read Chris' mail
below...  The robots.txt file at http://www.kde.org/robots.txt is
indeed blank.

We love Google, so we would certainly not block it intentionally.

Thanks,
Navin.

Chris Howells <chris at chrishowells.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2003 18:18, Gabriela Valdes wrote:
> 
> > We believe that www.kde.org is a great site and have discovered that
> > Google is currently blocked from crawling your site by the robot.txt
> > that is on your site.  I believe we can drive a lot of traffic and
> 
> I don't understand this. The robots.txt on the site is blank, which should 
> surely mean that is doesn't block anything.
> 
> Additionally, google doesn't seem to have had any problems crawling kde.org 
> recently judging from this:
> 
> http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:eR_coPb5HtQC:www.kde.org/+kde&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
> 
> The mail seems to come genuinely from google.com.
> 
> - -- 
> Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris at chrishowells.co.uk, howells at kde.org
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