Re:A Note on the Recent GitHub Outages
by timdorr on Thursday February 04, 2010 @10:34PM
(#1102606)
Another Yahoo! bot behaving badly? Between them and MSN/Bing's bot, what the hell is going on with search engine spiders lately?
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Re:A Note on the Recent GitHub Outages
by jrockway on Thursday February 04, 2010 @11:44PM
(#1102744)
Imagine you have to write a computer program to visit every page of every website on the entire Internet.
Sometimes you are going to make a mistake, and someone on the Internet is going to notice.
Except this has been going on for months, has happened a number of times, and occurs in violation of standards, like robots.txt, that were created to prevent it from happening. I'd expect it from an individual or startup, but not a large company that's been doing spidering for a long time.