This is not a flame, but I think that you have triggered the 0.000001% of
the people who want to do what the search engines claim 1,000% of people who
use interactive programming on the internet sole purpose is ie: to redirect
them to a bogus page. I think that the search engine community is slowing
the growth of the internet especially where interactivity is concerned and
using reasons like the one above is backward thinking. I do not think a
small group of search engines should control the internet with noone
controlling them or their ethics.
Just a thought that bothers me from time to time, when a potential client
says, "Oh is this Cold Fusion going to hurt my position in the search
engines?"
PS, I personally don't think there is anything wrong in what you are asking
Sebastian, but using it to make a point to mull over.
Terry
----- Original Message -----
From: sebastian palmigiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 8:09 PM
Subject: Detecting search engine robots
> on 10/17/00 6:19 PM, Peter Tilbrook at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Or even: <cfif cgi.http_user_agent contains "MSIE">
>
> How about detecting that it's a search engine spider making the request. I
> want to develop a script that identifies which search engine is requesting
> the page and then give it a page optimized for that search engine and give
> the browser the regular page.
>
> Does http.user_agent identify robots? And if so what is the string that is
> used in http.user_agent?
>
> ------
>
> Sebastian
>
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