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Mambo [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, May 3, 2007
17 years ago2,332 views

I found this after doing a normal search. Instead of providing a onebox result for the products, they've indexed a product search query instead. I thought it would have been in the robots.txt...

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Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Tsk. When will they learn?

[inurl:www.google.com/products?q=]
http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:www.google.com/products%3Fq%3D&filter=0

Results 1 – 10 of about 670,000

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Disallow: /products?

from http://www.google.com/robots.txt

Mambo [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Maybe the result was indexed before they added "products" to the robots.txt, and hasn't be updated since...

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