November 1, 200817 yr http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-100 ... icksArea.0 see url for the image containing the code [hide=]Google, whose servers constantly crawl the Web, doesn't have anything against spiders. But zombies, well, that's another matter. Showing some timely techie humor, the search giant updated its robots.txt file for Halloween. For the uninitiated, search engines trying to index Web sites look for robots.txt files for instructions about whether they're permitted access to particular pages. The Google robots.txt file on Friday begins with the following exclusion: User-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains Most of the time when people do this sort of thing it's called an Easter egg. Is there such a thing as a Halloween egg?[/hide] Seems google has some Halloween spirit. Quote - Revenge is such a nasty thing that only breeds more vengeful souls, but in some situations revenge does not even need to be sought out, but only bided.
November 2, 200817 yr http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10079992-2.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0 see url for the image containing the code [hide=]Google, whose servers constantly crawl the Web, doesn't have anything against spiders. But zombies, well, that's another matter. Showing some timely techie humor, the search giant updated its robots.txt file for Halloween. For the uninitiated, search engines trying to index Web sites look for robots.txt files for instructions about whether they're permitted access to particular pages. The Google robots.txt file on Friday begins with the following exclusion: User-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains Most of the time when people do this sort of thing it's called an Easter egg. Is there such a thing as a Halloween egg?[/hide] Seems google has some Halloween spirit. Agreed. (LOL! :lol: ...) Although, where did Google's brains go walking off to? Maybe I wouldn't want them catching up with me? :? ~D. V. "Freaky..." Devnull and normally with a cool mind.(Warning: This user can be VERY confusing to some people... And talks in 3rd person for the timebeing due to how insane they are... Sometimes even to themself.)
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