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Google mines CC

PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:12 am
by cairnswk
As i was searching for a reference for "Pao" (as i had it spelt incorrectly in the Forbidden city map) i came across the very reference i had made to this term in the results of a search that i did looking for that term on Google.
And this is not the first time I have seen this.

Google seems to be mining for referencing the very logs that are kept on this site, so i have to ask to the question....should lack change the robots.txt file (if he has one) to allow Google to only search the index page of this site, and nothing else.

Seems to me that there is an awful lot of info on this site that could be used lawfully.

Or am I misgiuded? :?:

Re: Google mines CC

PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:55 am
by InkL0sed
This sounded like a good map idea...

Re: Google mines CC

PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:02 pm
by whitestazn88
cairnswk wrote:As i was searching for a reference for "Pao" (as i had it spelt incorrectly in the Forbidden city map) i came across the very reference i had made to this term in the results of a search that i did looking for that term on Google.
And this is not the first time I have seen this.

Google seems to be mining for referencing the very logs that are kept on this site, so i have to ask to the question....should lack change the robots.txt file (if he has one) to allow Google to only search the index page of this site, and nothing else.

Seems to me that there is an awful lot of info on this site that could be used lawfully.

Or am I misgiuded? :?:


what do you mean lawfully? because i think that people could just as easily get an account and go through everything if they wanted to...

randomly coming upon it on google will just make people think "whats this..." and either think nothing of it, or get on cc, which is perfectly fine with me.

unless i don't get what you're saying... so maybe clarify a little more

Re: Google mines CC

PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:09 pm
by cairnswk
whitestazn88 wrote:
cairnswk wrote:As i was searching for a reference for "Pao" (as i had it spelt incorrectly in the Forbidden city map) i came across the very reference i had made to this term in the results of a search that i did looking for that term on Google.
And this is not the first time I have seen this.

Google seems to be mining for referencing the very logs that are kept on this site, so i have to ask to the question....should lack change the robots.txt file (if he has one) to allow Google to only search the index page of this site, and nothing else.

Seems to me that there is an awful lot of info on this site that could be used lawfully.

Or am I misgiuded? :?:


what do you mean lawfully? because i think that people could just as easily get an account and go through everything if they wanted to...

randomly coming upon it on google will just make people think "whats this..." and either think nothing of it, or get on cc, which is perfectly fine with me.

unless i don't get what you're saying... so maybe clarify a little more


only talking about copyright issues...if any!

Re: Google mines CC

PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:14 pm
by whitestazn88
i don't think there are any copyright issues here....

and if you're talking about other parts of the forum, i think it doesn't really matter because its just a discussion page, so copyrights don't really need to be worried about right?

cuz it would be like saying, we wouldn't be able to talk about certain products and things that are copywritten in our everyday lives...

Re: Google mines CC

PostPosted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:07 pm
by mibi
bad idea. i like my inbound links.