Thoughts - disable search engine access to the P&P

[Don]

Chaps,

The P&P - bastion of utter bks that it is. Do you really want search engines to find stuff in it? It's creating a new phenomenon that I don't think is healthy:

The old adage: Talk of the Devil and he will find you is most certainly true. Just now it's courtesy of Google.

Search engine access is great in the technical/marque/model specific fora. Not sure it's so good when it helps proliferate some rather nasty internet "memes".

[RacingPete]

It is something we have discussed before and is something we continually review.

Quite a few of people on PH have cited P&P as their first point of contact with the site and then have been very valuable contributors on the site for car related matters and it is a fine line between attracting decent PH'ers and not attracting the undesirables.

I will raise it with the team and mods again to see how we feel.

[randlemarcus]

Alternatively, simply get Search working internally, then we wont have to rely on Google to find anything in the P&P

[V8mate]

Does the site Search function include thread titles? Because it doesn't 'seem' to.

[cs02rm0]

Because all search engines listen to robots.txt?

[RacingPete]

V8mate said:

Does the site Search function include thread titles? Because it doesn't 'seem' to.

Not yet... but will do by the end of the month.

[RacingPete]

cs02rm0 said:

Because all search engines listen to robots.txt?

It is a good point, but the main one does

Edited by RacingPete on Wednesday 12th November 15:13

[james_gt3rs]

Don said:

"memes".

Forgive my ignorance, but what the hell does that mean?
Other than that, I agree with everything you said.

[Don]

james_gt3rs said:

Don said:

"memes".

Forgive my ignorance, but what the hell does that mean?
Other than that, I agree with everything you said.

Things like "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" if you remember that.

Something becomes a running joke. Then gets cross posted on forum after forum. Then the whole internet is wasting time on it. Some are funny. Some are scams. Some are plain nasty...