From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2007-07-25T09:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: *.rubyforge.org sites disappearing from google?

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 09:20 -0400, Tom Copeland wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 17:37 +0900, Andreas Launila wrote:
> > Leonard Chin wrote:
> > > Has anyone noticed that projects with homepages hosted on rubyforge
> > > have disappeared from the google index? When trying to google rspec,
> > > mongrel, mocha, fastercsv, their respective *.rubyforge.org pages fail
> > > to appear in the search results.
> > > 
> > > This may be just a temporary hiccup, however...
> > > 
> > 
> > Probably a cause of this:
> > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=102&aid=12074&group_id=5
> 
> Yup, let's give it a day or two and see if Google picks them up again
> now that I've removed that block.  If not, I'll contact them...

FYI, this appears to be cleared up now:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:mongrel.rubyforge.org/

Note to self, don't block Googlebots with iptables!

Yours,

Tom