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Re:Bing search results showing up in Google by benologist on Saturday February 05, 2011 @03:10PM (#2183930)
The Bing context might suck for you guys, but this is your problem - case insensitivity is every Windows server, not just the Bing website.

Why would anyone hosted on Windows have to specify every possible spelling variation to keep search engines out of a folder or file?

Here's another example:

http://www.ifma.org/robots.txt

These guys are disallowing /pv/

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

You guys are indexing /PV/

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Re:Bing search results showing up in Google by andrewcooke on Saturday February 05, 2011 @03:19PM (#2183941)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your argument, but I think you're confusing the Windows file system with the URLs that a web service provides.
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Re:Bing search results showing up in Google by benologist on Saturday February 05, 2011 @03:39PM (#2183993)
The problem exists when that web service is on Windows - ASP.NET, Cold Fusion, static html sites, probably a negligible percent of PHP sites etc -

/pv is /PV is /pV is /Pv

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