The Phorm "Webwise" System
Alan
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:43:55 +0100
Jim Murray wrote:
> Sent: 06 April 2
> Take this to it's logical conclusion. Phorm have already stated they
> will intercept search engine queries. They also intercept the result
> pages as best I know.
Google are of course already server-side opted-out of WebWise based on
Richard's section 44 (+/- a couple). Their robots.txt contains:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
etc.
Server-side opt out clearly covers responses, I can't figure out whether it
applies to the requests that prompted those responses (although it obviously
should), and I imagine "search engine" trumps server-side opt-out in any
case.