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Re:Dropbox API is available by jackowayed on Saturday July 03, 2010 @08:28PM (#1484839)
Google can't index things behind a login wall (as far as we know...).

It's also just sort of annoying (you may have a dropbox account but not be logged in at the moment on the device you're using) and unnecessary.

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Re:Dropbox API is available by michaelfairley on Sunday July 04, 2010 @12:27AM (#1485125)
It's easy enough to not require the login wall for certain user agents (such as GoogleBot).

Granted, it would be easier and better to not have it the first place.

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Re:Dropbox API is available by eli on Sunday July 04, 2010 @10:39AM (#1485744)
Google frowns on treating its not differently than a regular user. And the googlebot doesn't always identify itself as such.
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