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Old 13-05-2008, 18:24   #6464
jelv
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

I now have absolute confirmation that it is googlebot and googlebot only that Phorm looks for in robots.txt:

Email from me to Emma Sanderson of BT:
Quote:
Emma,

Sorry to be a pain, but just to be absolutely 100% clear on this, if I had the following robots.txt file:

User-agent: msnbot
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /


visitors would not be profiled because googlebot is not allowed.

Regards

John
Reply from Emma Sanderson:

Quote:
Mr Elvin

In this scenario, the page wouldn't be profiled during its transmission to the user who requested it, because with exception of msn no other bots are allowed.

Regards
Emma
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