Archive for July, 2007

Alice spamming Google

06Jul07

Update! (July 6, 2007 : 4pm)
After reading this post, Alice/Virgilio have patched their robots.txt file, a search engine rep announced at the GiorgioTave.it Forum today.
Here’s the updated version:
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search/cgi/
Well done, Alice/Virgilio!
Note: I’m leaving the rest of this post unedited.
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The Italian search engine/portal Alice (a.k.a. Virgilio Ricerca), whose web search results […]

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A meta-custom search engine? Pretty cool idea.

01Jul07

While fiddling around with Google Custom Search Engine, I wondered: why in the world Google does not provide a comprehensive, topic-based directory of CSE’s (besides a few hand-picked “featured examples“) or -even better- a search interface to find and discover new custom search engines quickly and easily?
Luckily enough, where Google lacks, a few brave hackers […]

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