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Yes, I'm pretty sure Google respects at least robots.txt, and probably
the meta tags as well.

See: http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:01:08 +0000, selva@thescian.com
<selva@thescian.com> wrote:
> How to keep google out of the history copies of pages?
> (would adding noindex metatag work? how do i do that for non-current revisions
> of a page?)
>
> All the spam gets indexed although the pages are reverted.
>
> Selva.
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On Oct 12, 2004, at 2:01 PM, selva@thescian.com wrote:
> How to keep google out of the history copies of pages?
> (would adding noindex metatag work? how do i do that for non-current
> revisions
> of a page?)

It should, and it's already included.

> All the spam gets indexed although the pages are reverted.

Can you clarify what exactly is being indexed? Note that google doesn't
update instantly when your pages change; if it happened to last visit a
page while it was vandalised, the google cache will contain the
vandalised version until googlebot next visits.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)