Well am I ever surprised! I would have thought that inserting a robots.txt file that tells googlebot to "go away" would cause it to "not index the site."User-agent: * Disallow: /Instead, I discovered … [Read more...]
Google and YouTube censorship
As a part of their effort to provide greater transparency about the use and blocking of their services, Google provides some interesting information which is available in “real time” online. Their Tra … [Read more...]
Google and government requests for data or removal
Google receives requests, including court orders, from many countries, for data or for removal of information on the various services it provides (search, YouTube, etc.). They’re experimenting with p … [Read more...]
Google and censorship in China – the tale continues
With Kai-Fu Lee leaving Google.cn [see Wall Street Journal article which first announced the departure] the story of how Google has gone from a company that provides access to “everything” on the web, … [Read more...]
Use OpenID on your WordPress blog!
I like OpenID[1] although I think it’s more complex than most people can handle — and that’s a big hurdle. OpenID gives visitors to your blog or web site a chance to log in (create an account on your s … [Read more...]