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Stopdesign and Plagiarism
Why on earth is Douglas blocking the Turnitin bot from his site?
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WTF is Turnitin???
And more importantly: why do you check other people’s
robots.txt? :PAnd, what is this Asides? What will happen to the recent-links?
Rogier: According to their home page (which is down at the moment), Turnitin is . They offer plagiarism detection tools, under which .
Weird, ‘cause I can hardly imagine him stealing other people’s content, so
why not allow that bot to do its job?
Indranil: Indeed, I wrote my own Asides script :) I’ll use it to style short posts, it won’t replace the blogmarks. My blogmarks is my linkdump; my weblog is where I discuss all kinds of stuff.
Talking about plagiarism, doesn’t this look familiar?
Looks a lot like a previous version of Stopdesign…
Awch, that’s so lame! How did you found out about that? Matthijs Abeelen, we’ll hunt you down and kick your ass.
You didn’t mention why you read other people’s
robots.txt… That one’s got me puzzled. :-DAlrighty then, I was looking at other people’s
robots.txtbecause I needed some inspiration on what to do with mine, i.e. which sections to block for bots. For example, by looking over Douglas’s, I figured that/archives/category/catname/shouldn’t be indexed by search engines, — that’s just not necessary.It just surprised me that he’s blocking that
TurnitinBot, I really wonder why that is.A lot of people are in the habit of blocking the TurnitinBot as it seems to suck bandwidth like a new born baby at breakfast. I don’t believe it is anything to do with their policies or work it just hits sites very regularly. On one large site I have been involved in it hit over 20,000 times in one month!
Ah, so that’s why. Thanks for pointing that out, Andrew.
Guess I’ll disallow that sucker bot too, then.