[Labs-l] Google bot

[Maximilian Doerr]

I disagree.  Google bot has been nothing but a nuisance, continuously probing my tool with different queries.  It has drained resources needlessly, and was quite glad that tool labs had it blocked.

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> On Oct 19, 2014, at 21:30, Nuria Ruiz <nuria at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 
> Why would we want to restrict google indexing of the whole cluster? There are tools of many different nature deployed there, seems that indexing or not should be configured on a instance per instance basis.
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> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Maximilian Doerr <maximilian.doerr at gmail.com <mailto:maximilian.doerr at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Who protested to that, and why would that be a problem?
> 
> Cyberpower678
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: labs-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:labs-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org> [mailto:labs-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:labs-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org>] On Behalf Of Marc A. Pelletier
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> Subject: Re: [Labs-l] Google bot
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> On 10/19/2014 03:50 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
> > I vaguely remember that indexing bots (like the Google one) were
> > filtered out by Labs already?
> 
> They were, for some time, but then I got some fairly vehement protestations that tools being unindexed by Google was a problem.
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> -- Marc
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