[WEB4LIB] Re: another tangent to Re: Inline forms in CSS

[Thomas Dowling]

At 06:56 PM 3/3/2002, Charlie Irwin wrote:
>       I had not really been following this thread BUT...
>
>       The <noindex> tag is used to prevent search engines' spiders and 'bots
>from crawling a page. It is specified by the Robots Exclusion Protocol,
>according to Chris Sherman's and Gary Price's book "The Invisible Web".
>Therefore it can't really be classed as "proprietary/made up stuff" and is
>certainly not something invented by Atomz.


We may be talking at cross purposes.  The robot exclusion protocol at 
<http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html> refers to a perfectly valid 
META element along these lines:

   <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">


It does not refer to a NOINDEX *element* along the lines described by Atomz:

   <p>Index this paragraph.</p>
   <noindex>
   <p>Don't index this paragraph.</p>
   </noindex>




Thomas Dowling
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