RE: Google Crawler

[Andy Ellifson <andy () ellifson com>]

Thank you!

--- Mike Damm <MikeD () irwinresearch com> wrote:
> http://www.google.com/bot.html for issues with the crawler.
> mailto:googlebot () google com will get you a human bean to talk to.
> Normally
> when there is a problem with their robot, they are pretty responsive.
>
>       -Mike
>
> ---
> Michael Damm, MIS Department, Irwin Research & Development
> V: 509.457.5080 x298 F: 509.577.0301 E: miked () irwinresearch com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Ellifson [mailto:andy () ellifson com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:45 AM
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Google Crawler
>
>
> We are a domain registrar and we host/park over 750,000 domain names.
>
> Every now and then the Google Crawler decides to bury the machines
> that
> host our 'parked' domain pages.  We use robots.txt but that doesn't
> help under these circumstances.  I have tried sending a message to
> Google using their web site.  They don't have a NOC entry on
> puck.nether.net either.  Our only alternative right now is to block
> the
> crawler at the router level.
>
> Does anbody have a contact at Google or is anyone at Google
> listening?
>
> Thanks!
> Andy Ellifson