begin  quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:51:53PM -0700:
> Tracy R Reed wrote:
> >Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> >>Apparently the battle with spammers and search engine optimizers is 
> >>not going well.  If Google can't even index class websites anymore, 
> >>it's well on the way to being broken.
> >
> >I still get pretty good results with google. Are you sure they didn't 
> >put a robots.txt file somewhere in front of your class pages?
> 
> No, I'm not.  However, that would imply that someone cared enough to 
> place a robots.txt file somewhere.  I'm skeptical.

SDSU's local search leverages google... so yeah, I doubt a robots.txt.

> It's more likely that rohan got added to Google's list of "spam 
> crackers" sites.  rohan was running some ancient, broken, unpatched 
> version of Apache because some "application" required it.  Probably the 
> "application" in question has been broken into so horribly that Google 
> placed the entire domain in a blacklist.

Except that my pages come up just fine.

> There are a few other pages that do get indexed; however, there doesn't 
> seem to be any particular rhyme or reason.

Surely some of us have contacts in google...

> Once I get my new server online, I'll bring over the pages from SDSU and 
> see if that helps.  If it does, it's something at SDSU.

It'll be interesting.

-- 
Have you sinned against the Great God Google today?
Stewart Stremler


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