- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@iinet.net.au>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:11:03 +1100
- To: Trejkaz <trejkaz@trypticon.org>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Trejkaz wrote: > I'm starting to wonder why this couldn't have been achieved without markup at > all. The web server _knows_ that it's Googlebot requesting the page. > Couldn't the web application simply omit the entire comment section? You, like Google, seem to be forgetting that a lot of legitimate and valuable discussion takes place within blog comments. Marking comments off in a way that tells a search engine to ignore the content or omitting them entirely is essentially denying their existence. That is harmful because searches would then fail to return those kind of results, even though their content may be highly relevent. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ http://GetFirefox.com/ Rediscover the Web http://SpreadFirefox.com/ Igniting the Web
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