Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 12-05-2008, 21:40   #6402
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Originally Posted by jelv View Post
I now know the user agent that Phorm is looking for in robots.txt and its time to get Google's opinion methinks. I have received confirmation from BT that Phorm is explicitly looking for the Googlebot's permission in robots.txt - not any search engine:

I posed the following question in an email to Emma Sanderson:



(Note I whoopsied and got the name of the Google agent wrong)

This evening I have received a reply which included the following:



The fact that they have corrected it to Googlebot confirms that it is specifically looking for the Googlebot permission.
Perhaps aconcerted effort to Google about this might get them on our side and in the fight.

If I remember correctly when I first built a website I had to apply for google bot to visit which would give them consent then. So google have conscent from me due to me applying.
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