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Philipp Lenssen  
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 More options Feb 18 2007, 6:54 am
From: Philipp Lenssen
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:54:21 -0000
Local: Sun, Feb 18 2007 6:54 am
Subject: Indexing of Search Results
Is there any official Google statement regarding that search result on
one's own site ought to be disallowed from indexing (e.g. via
robots.txt)?

It's a trick many spammers use, after all, and sometimes, it happens
inadvertently. And it creates a lot of redundancy in search results.
Sites like YouTube do it to:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Awww.youtube.com%...


 
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