[COLUG] How to boycott Microsoft (or at least MSN search)

[John Burroway]

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On Wednesday 07 July 2004 01:43 pm, Scott Merrill wrote:
> Wade Pinkston said:
> Maybe I'm a loony, but I thought the whole point of _having_ a website was
> so that people could read it.  If they can't find it, they can't read it.
> How can you advocate GNU/Linux or Free Software solutions to people if you
> aggressively deny them the opportunity to find your site?  If you only
> allow Google to index your site, then you're mostly preaching to the
> choir.


Good point. In fact, a better solution might be, instead of disallowing msnbot 
in robots.txt, start making use of Google to provide search capabilities on 
your site. Advocation instead of boycott.


John Burroway
http://www.burroway.net
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