Gartner to Google: Learn to read minds
Concerning a school district which misconfigured [link to http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/14891995.htm no longer works] its web server and wound up posting student social security numbers for all — including Google’s spiders — to see, Gartner’s Avivah Litan weighs in:
They say the Internet is free and open, and you can’t stop them,” Litan said. “But they ought to scrutinize some of the content and, at least, send a warning to Web sites that they’re exposing this information.
Google doesn’t honor robots.txt? Wow. Gartner really does know something everyone else doesn’t.
The desire to blame something, anything, please, let me…
I suppose the pressure from journos for a 25 word quote does make the easy blame a slamdunk.
That makes a big assumption that Gartner knows what robots.txt is. These folks stay at a high level, so how things actually work can get lost in translation.