White House site prevents Iraq material being archived


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Augustwest
October 28, 2003, 02:26 PM
This from an Australian news site, via Claire Wolfe's 'blog, via freemarket.net:

By Sam Varghese
October 28, 2003

The White House website effectively prevents search engines indexing and archiving material on the site related to Iraq.

The directories on a site which can be searched by the bots sent out by search engines can be limited by means of a file called robots.txt, which resides in the root directory of a site...

The rest can be found at:

theage.com.au (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/28/1067233141495.html)

Not cool, at all.

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