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Leon,

Leon Rosenberg wrote:
> Having said that, there are a lot of use cases where you explicitelly
> don't want google or anyone else to index the site, cause it contains
> private information, would you like to see your private emails or your
> health check or your account's balance sheet in google, and would you
> like other people to see it? For those cases it's completely
> irrelevant whether the site is easy-index-able or not, and doesn't
> influence your framework decision.

... and just as easy to use a robots.txt file to disable (legitimate)
search engine indexing. I would argue that protected content should be
... protected anyway, and not indexable at all, regardless of robot.txt
status.

> Craig McClanahan once said, that probably 90% of struts applications
> worldwide are running behind company firewalls in intranets. How
> relevant is indexing for those? (And yes, I know that they can buy
> google appliance and index them privately :-))

I'm not sure the Struts example is relevant, here, since Struts doesn't
use single-URL semantics. Or, at least, it does not encourage these
semantics.

> To  sum it up, there are a lot of homework you have to perform if you
> want your site properly indexed, and using a framework which hides
> everything behind one url and sends POST requests is surely contra
> productive.

Absolutely.

- -chris
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