Gartner to Google: Learn to read minds
(Posted by cwalsh)
Concerning a school district which misconfigured its web server and wound up posting student social security numbers for all -- including Google's spiders -- to see, Gartner's Avivah Litan weighs in:
They say the Internet is free and open, and you can't stop them," Litan said. "But they ought to scrutinize some of the content and, at least, send a warning to Web sites that they're exposing this information.
Google doesn't honor robots.txt? Wow. Gartner really does know something everyone else doesn't.
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The desire to blame something, anything, please, let me...
I suppose the pressure from journos for a 25 word quote does make the easy blame a slamdunk.
Posted by: Iang | June 24, 2006 12:06 PM
That makes a big assumption that Gartner knows what robots.txt is. These folks stay at a high level, so how things actually work can get lost in translation.
Posted by: Mike Rothman | June 24, 2006 6:25 PM