Murdoch's TimesOnline says "'spidering is not allowed"
There it is.
Murdock is moving ahead with his plans to block search engines from spidering his content, at least at the TimesOnline site. Here's the robots.txt file, which clearly states 'spidering is not allowed'.
##ACAP version=1.0
#Robots.txt File#Version: 0.8#Last updated: 04/01/2010#Site contents Copyright Times Newspapers Ltd#Please note our terms and conditions http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,497,00.html #Spidering is not allowed by our terms and conditions #Authorised spidering is subject to permission #For authorisation please contact us - see http://www.nisyndication.com/about_us.html# Globally Disallowed Sections: All Robots
User-agent: *
Disallow: /_gatools/
Disallow: /_nipd/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /img/
Disallow: /tol/Print.do
Disallow: /tol/sitesearch.do
Disallow: /tol/incomingFeeds
Disallow: /tol/arts_and_entertainment/commercial/vip_lounge
Disallow: /tol/viewArticle.arc
Disallow: /tol/tools_and_services/rss/times_mobile_content/
Disallow: /tol/tools_and_services/mobile_times/mobile_2/
Disallow: /tol/tools_and_services/mobile_times/mobile_3/
Disallow: /tol/tlskeywordsearch.tls#Agent Specific Disallowed Sections
User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /User-agent: Omgili
Disallow: /User-agent: WebVac
Disallow: /User-agent: WebZip
Disallow: /User-agent: psbot
Disallow: /User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /ACAP-crawler: *
ACAP-disallow-crawl: /_gatools/
ACAP-disallow-crawl: /_nipd/
ACAP-disallow-crawl: /images/
ACAP-disallow-crawl: /img/
ACAP-disallow-crawl: /tol/Print.do
ACAP-disallow-crawl: /tol/arts_and_entertainment/commercial/vip_lounge
ACAP-disallow-crawl: /tol/viewArticle.arc
ACAP-disallow-crawl: /tol/tools_and_services/rss/times_mobile_content/
ACAP-disallow-crawl: /tol/tools_and_services/mobile_times/mobile_2/
ACAP-disallow-crawl: /tol/tools_and_services/mobile_times/mobile_3/ACAP-crawler: NewsNow
ACAP-crawler: Omgili
ACAP-crawler: WebVac
ACAP-crawler: WebZip
ACAP-crawler: psbot
ACAP-crawler: ia_archiver
ACAP-disallow-crawl: /[pointer by The NextWeb]