From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Tue Dec 21 1999 - 12:45:12 MST
Brian Atkins wrote:
> Ebay is attempting to ward off centralized auction search
> sites by blocking those sites from accessing its servers.
> It is quite easy for a petfood.com or whatever to block
> your search bot and not allow it to index your content. So
> in effect they can try to make people still come directly
> to their site, or as ebay is trying to do force the search
> bot operators to license the content.
I think good search bots will replace the URL field as the
standard way of navigating the web. In which case dot-com's
that deter search bots would only succeed in losing
customers. Ebay's got nothing you can't do with XML and a
good search engine anyway.
BM
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