Does goolge's robots.txt wrong?

Discussion in 'Google' started by hellas, Jan 6, 2007.

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    I found google's robots.txt(http://www.google.com/robots.txt) has some lines as:

    Allow: /searchhistory/
    Code (markup):
    But the robots.txt specification(http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html) said there should no "Allow" tag in this file, does it mean google is wrong?:confused:
     
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  3. hellas

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    Thanks, man. I think it can easily write a "white list" by using the "Allow" tag, that's what I'm really want to do, thanks.;)
     
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    There is no Allow: directive in the original robots.txt specification.

    Google, Yahoo and a few others have provided definitions for an Allow: directive. At this time, there is no agreement on a common definition. This means that, in some situations, there are contradictory interpretations of this tentative Allow: directive.

    If you use it, you should limit its use to the parts of your robots.txt that are user-agent specific (only applicable to user-agents that understand it and that use the same definition as you do). It is certainly better to avoid it.

    Jean-Luc
     
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