UWSpace sucks!

May 23, 2010 02:35

For those that are unaware - if you've previously published your thesis at UWSpace (or are about to), don't worry about anyone ever finding it - the University of Waterloo has ensured that no thesis (or even abstract) stored at UWSpace will ever be indexed by competent search engines.

Let me cite their current robots.txt:

User-agent: *

# Disallow: /browse-author
# Disallow: /items-by-author
# Disallow: /browse-date
# Disallow: /browse-subject
Disallow: /'Nuff said!

References:
http://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/robots.txt
http://dspace.mit.edu/robots.txt
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/robots.txt

fail, robots.txt, uwspace

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