Brett Tabke Loses His Mind

Posted by Greg on November 21st, 2005

Brett’s decided to finally deal with that nasty ingrown toenail by amputating his entire foot.

I’m certainly not going to question the problem of rogue bots crawling WebmasterWorld. I know it’s something he spends alot of time on. (I think he’s even banned me a couple of times). But banning all bots just to get rid of the rogue ones that happen to obey robots.txt?

And banning Google when you know that everyone relies on Google to find things at WebmasterWorld? The internal search function at WebmasterWorld has been a broken piece of crap for the last 5 years. How is it he is going to replace it in 60 days?

I understand wanting to test a a full robots.txt ban, but it really wouldn’t be very hard to simply cloak the robots.txt file to Google so they can continue to index the site while BT finds a search solution.

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  1. rogerd's notebook on November 23rd, 2005 12:22 pm

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    Brett Tabke’s WebmasterWorld.com is arguably one of the most successful communities on the Web, boasting tens of thousands of members, a large and active group of fee-paying “Supporters”, and an unusually high Alexa ranking that keep…

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