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Re:Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us by petercooper on Thursday December 16, 2010 @05:26PM (#2014074)
But Delicious's database is already public (if you take out private fields on the user table and the private links). Even just the links + tags without any user info would rock for semantic Web usage.
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Re:Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us by sabat on Thursday December 16, 2010 @05:37PM (#2014138)
It's public right now. It won't be once Yahoo pulls the plug on Delicious.
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Re:Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us by Tichy on Thursday December 16, 2010 @05:50PM (#2014193)
User-agent: * Disallow: /

I don't remember the robots.txt rules for sure, but doesn't that mean they don't allow crawlers at all?

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Re:Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us by ivank on Thursday December 16, 2010 @06:17PM (#2014315)
That's the rule for crawlers that aren't Slurp, Googlebot, Teoma, or msnbot.
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Re:Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us by Tichy on Thursday December 16, 2010 @06:40PM (#2014390)
I noticed the extra rules, but I am neither Slurp, Googlebot, Teoma nor msnbot :-(
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Re:Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us by mfukar on Friday December 17, 2010 @08:29AM (#2016117)
robots.txt is merely a suggestion.
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