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                                   A request
                                        
> From: Spring Dew <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> To: "Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner" <sean@conman.org>
> Subject: googling
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:19:55 -0500
> 
> Hi honey. I was looking for Bicycle World's website, and tried to Google
> things like:
> 
> * "bicycle world" florida
> * "bicycle world" FL
> * "bicycle world" greenacres
> * "bicycle world" lake worth
> 
> Lots of Yellow Pages listings, but no results for the actual website. I
> finally found the site by going to
> 
> http://www.wildernessenergy.com/retail_locations_florida.html [1]
> 
> and getting the link from there.
> 
> Most of the pages on their site don't have much for keywords or
> description; most don't mention Florida. But if you were to link to
> 
> http://bicycleworldonline.com/page.cfm?PageID=12 [2]
> 
> do you think Google might pick up the result? That page actually has place
> names in it. The home page doesn't.
> 
> Working backwards, the only way I could find it was to Google for results
> directly from that URL. Heh.
> 

Certainly I'll link to that page. But it's iffy if Google [3] will index the
page. It depends upon the sites robots.txt [4] file, if there are any
appropriate <META> [5] tags on the page, and will Google spider a site that
is most likely the output from a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) program (that
can have bad consequences—infinite loops, lost data, etc.).

But it can't hurt to try.

[1] http://www.wildernessenergy.com/retail_locations_florida.html
[2] http://bicycleworldonline.com/page.cfm?PageID=12
[3] http://www.google.com/
[4] http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html
[5] http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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