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Re: [OM] Lycos Copyright Infringement

Subject: Re: [OM] Lycos Copyright Infringement
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:11:00 -0700
At 10:45 PM 1/17/2001 +0000, John Lind wrote:
>At 22:26 1/17/01, Simon E. wrote:
>>You could use non-indexed pages (don't submit your URL to search engines and 
>>don't have other sites linking to yours). I wonder if these image search 
>>robots can access photopoint folders, for example?
>>
>>Simon E.
>
>The "spiders" search an entire site.  In the case of Lycos, it looks for 
>multimedia rich pages/sites, makes thumbnails of the images, and indexes them 
>to the image file source (not to the html page on which they appear).  Aspects 
>of this technique are legally controversial concerning intellectual property 
>rights.  There will be increasing litigation over it within the next several 
>years.
>
>There is a way of deflecting "spiders" or "bots" from specified areas of a 
>site provided the wiring for it has been left in them.  I don't think it's a 
>matter of non-indexed pages.  For those who have their own sites and want to 
>do this, see the following about how to add site code that restricts what 
>spiders can access:
>  http://www.kollar.com/robots.html


Yeah, I debated whether or not to put a "robots.txt" file on the Gallery when I 
first put it up, and decided against it -- I wanted the Gallery to be found in 
search engines.

Just not like this.  :-/

Garth


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