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On Wednesday 20 June 2007 13:10, Martijn wrote: > > I frequently come across the site on google whilst looking for things php > > or java related. They > > block the page you come across in your search result and attempt to mask > > the page to encourage > > you to sign up for one of their paid accounts. What some of us noticed > > recently is that the Google > > cached version actually contains the full text : ) It made me chuckle... > > Through Wikipedia I found an even neater* solution, by using a Firefox > plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59) that lets > you tell the website your browser is a Google bot. OK I'll be the first to ask the obvious... how do you configure it as Google Bot? stick "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)" in the useragent field is that enuf? Tom te tom te tom > > * of course, spoofing the user agent isn't neat at all, but delivering > different content to Google than to human visitors is worse. In fact, > in the past Google has blocked sites (Body Shop, a.o., and, IIRC, BMW) > that have used this trick. > > I was, by the way, quite surprised that doing a search on the site > redirects you to Google. Certainly, a site with so many experts > "working" for it, would know how to build an internal search tool. > > Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html