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danso on July 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bringing Craigslist Back

So what you're suggesting is that if a service put "noindex" in its robots/metatags, they would be somehow be overstepping the bounds of what they can do with their users' content?

pdeuchler on July 9, 2012 [–]

Not at all... that's a bit of a strawman since robots.txt/metatags are used by search engines and not the public in general.

Not wanting your data on Google != Denying access to said content

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