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]]> By: Scott Voigt http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2005/12/14/no-index-flag-for-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-1600 Scott Voigt Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:33:09 +0000 http://www.gregrphoto.com/rassoc/gregr/weblog/2005/12/14/no-index-flag-for-feeds/#comment-1600 Greg, <br> <br>Enjoyed meeting you at the Syndicate dinner, and thanks for taking the lead on this. <br> <br>We think your no index proposal looks great. We did, however, want to throw a suggestion out for comment. <br> <br>It seems that there could be benefits to both the rss community as well as the consumer if we move from a boolean true/false index flag to one that could enumerate three different categories of flag -- no index, global index and personal index. <br> <br>Consider the scenario of a consumer using a web-based reader that offers the functionality to search for previously viewed items (a la YahooMail, Gmail, etc). Adding the “private index” flag would enable providers to strengthen personal account searchability without having to publicly index the irss feed. For providers that don’t support personal account search, the personal_index flag could be treated the same as no_index. <br> <br>This may be something to consider down the road, but we figured it might be worth a quick discussion. Thoughts? Greg,

Enjoyed meeting you at the Syndicate dinner, and thanks for taking the lead on this.

We think your no index proposal looks great. We did, however, want to throw a suggestion out for comment.

It seems that there could be benefits to both the rss community as well as the consumer if we move from a boolean true/false index flag to one that could enumerate three different categories of flag — no index, global index and personal index.

Consider the scenario of a consumer using a web-based reader that offers the functionality to search for previously viewed items (a la YahooMail, Gmail, etc). Adding the “private index” flag would enable providers to strengthen personal account searchability without having to publicly index the irss feed. For providers that don’t support personal account search, the personal_index flag could be treated the same as no_index.

This may be something to consider down the road, but we figured it might be worth a quick discussion. Thoughts?

]]> By: raj dash http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2005/12/14/no-index-flag-for-feeds/comment-page-1/#comment-1599 raj dash Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:53:23 +0000 http://www.gregrphoto.com/rassoc/gregr/weblog/2005/12/14/no-index-flag-for-feeds/#comment-1599 Greg, why wouldn't adding a "disallow" for a feed's URL, in the robots.txt file, not solve the problem for an entire feed? Obviously, that won't work for partial feeds. But neither your suggestion nor the robots.txt method will work if spiders don't respect a "no index" directive. Greg, why wouldn’t adding a “disallow” for a feed’s URL, in the robots.txt file, not solve the problem for an entire feed? Obviously, that won’t work for partial feeds. But neither your suggestion nor the robots.txt method will work if spiders don’t respect a “no index” directive.

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