I wouldn't be surprised if search robots would also scan comments in web pages.
Easy to find out: just try to hit such a "hidden" page by searching for
relevant keywords in the page on e.g. Google...
-- Peter Vanroose,
Leuven, Belgium.
Don Simons wrote:
> I've been browsing the stats for WIMA, available to all at
> http://www.icking-music-archive.org/usage/
>
> In June, through 6/26, of 1366924 recorded hits, only 8075 or 0.59% were to
> the software pages. I guess I'm not surprised at that ratio; I can believe
> that 170 times more people want to download free scores rather than typeset
> music. But as best I could determine, there were no hits at all recorded for
> any .zip files, including of course musixtex.zip, pmx250.zip, and
> pmx2610.zip. I can't believe that no one at all downloaded any of those
> files. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Does the software
> simply not record hits to zip files? Or maybe not to zip.files if they are
> "save"d rather than "open"ed?
>
> There are also 177 hits to pages in the memorial folder. As best I can
> determine, there are no remaining links on the main page to anything in that
> folder (I looked at the source and they seem to be commented out). Does
> anyone have any idea what's going on here? Could that many people have been
> both clever and inquisitive enough to look in the page's source? I know at
> first I wasn't; I first found the missing link through my server access to
> the archive. I have gone there several times and did give one other person
> that link, but it doesn't seem like that could have accounted for so many
> hits.
>
> --Don Simons
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