Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 13-05-2008, 00:36   #6412
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
OK couple of things.

Re: Robots.txt
Phorm claimed at the PIA Public Meeting that before they push a request through for a GET from a user to a website they will visit the document root for the domain to see if there is a robots.txt which allows Google access; if there is they will profile the pages the user requests. There is no indication (in fact they refused to tell us) what the user-agent will be for this robots.txt request but the user-agent for the user's GET requests will (I expect, although this has not been clarified either) be unchanged from the user's normal user-agent.

re: Share Prices
Talk in the press is that the reason for the latest shoring up of the stock is down to the BT trials being imminent to start in the next 2 weeks. Nothing to do with any large new contracts with anyone.

re: Google
Watch this space (and that is all I can say on the matter for now).

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