Google added yet another folder to their robots.txt file < http://www.google.com/robots.txt >, excluding it from web spiders: /cricket? and /cricket/. None of these URLs resolve to something on Google.com, however, other country domains show a JavaScript snippet. Apparently, this is used for the inclusion of a Google Desktop cricket live scores gadget, so no new product can be expected along these lines. See Digital Inspiration's post from 2006: < http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/05/cricket-mania-google-bowls-googly.html > and http://www.google.co.in/cricket |
Cricket is the code name of Google Talk!!!
http://www.zorgloob.com/2006/11/inside-google-france-discussion-avec.asp |
World cup going to start in west indies |
I'll take a stab.. It is a Google App/Google Pages Google Talk widget for a MNVO Called Leap Wireless. They have device/service called... drum roll please... Cricket .. .. details http://www.leapwireless.com/l1_our_cricket_service.htm .. Should port nicely on the Google Phone.. GooPhone maybe? :-) |
the mobile space is on the move.. but whats up is intriguing..
yesterday I heard chatter that a new phone+service is going to be luanched
today, the bot.txt file is changed.. somethings in the air..
but cricket could also be a widget just for the WorldCup.. after all ealy 500Million folks in the asian subcontient track this event /daily.. so one can see the revenue potentials via this method!! :)_ |
oops.. MVNO I meant to say.. |
www.mycricket.com looks well!! |
Yep.. www.mycricket.com is owned by LeapWireless BTW.. |
One thing to remember, the chances are low I think that Google would add an internal code name to their public robots.txt, so it's probably not the code name... but who knows?! |
Nope. It's the same URL from the first post of this thread. |
Is there no way to make robots.txt unaccessible to the public, but visible to Web crawlers? |
And here's the cricket world cup logo with thanks to http://zorgloob.com :
http://www.google.co.za/logos/cricket07.gif
http://www.google.co.za/
> Is there no way to make robots.txt unaccessible
> to the public, but visible to Web crawlers?
Then you'd need not only an authentication system, but also a standards organization which decides just who is authorized to create web crawlers... that would be a serious problem for innovation. At this moment, everyone's allowed to write their own search engine and let it index parts of the web. (In practice you need some pretty robust servers to do so, but at least you are allowed to in theory.) |
So How many cricket fans are in this forum ??
It will kewl to see a cricket gadget that I can place on my sidebar or hompy.. just like the ones we had for FIFA :)- |
> Is there no way to make robots.txt unaccessible to
> the public, but visible to Web crawlers?
If you knew all the user agents you wanted to access it, this would be possible. But since there are so many user agents out there (both bot and non-bot clients) it wouldn't really be recommended. |
If you look at http://www.google.co.in/cricket you'll realise now why /cricket was excluded in robots.txt!
It means what is says – cricket the game – not GTalk. I love how rumours get started – good to see the buzz about potential new Google products continues :) |
