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Lucas Dobre

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Message 116005 - Posted: 28 Apr 2025, 3:02:19 UTC

Duckduckgo searching for "Boinc config" produces:

"We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us."

Why?
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Message 116006 - Posted: 28 Apr 2025, 6:59:19 UTC - in response to Message 116005.  

In reply to Lucas Dobre's message of 28 Apr 2025:
Duckduckgo searching for "Boinc config" produces:

"We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us."

Why?
You need to ask DuckDuckGo that.

Doing a search on DuckDuckGo using
Boinc config
without the quotation marks gives lots of results.
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Message 116008 - Posted: 28 Apr 2025, 12:12:25 UTC

First result is a link to https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration
It has "We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us." instead of description.
Same happens with Bing and Yahoo.
Robots.txt looks like this:
User-agent: Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /trac/
Disallow: /gitweb
Disallow: /git
Disallow: /translate
Disallow: /doxygen
Disallow: /w/
Disallow: /wiki/
Disallow: /dev/
Disallow: /alpha/
Disallow: /cplan/
Disallow: /test/


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Message 116014 - Posted: 28 Apr 2025, 20:41:47 UTC - in response to Message 116008.  

Thanks kotenok. The question is why Boinc puts in a disallow for all those things. If everyone did that search engines would be almost useless.
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Message 116034 - Posted: 2 May 2025, 10:41:31 UTC - in response to Message 116014.  

In reply to Lucas Dobre's message of 28 Apr 2025:
Thanks kotenok. The question is why Boinc puts in a disallow for all those things. If everyone did that search engines would be almost useless.


The search engines are welcome to crawl all the public areas of the site but no site really wants things like the dev and test areas to be indexed and searchable.
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Message 116035 - Posted: 2 May 2025, 11:35:57 UTC

Why is /wiki/ disallowed?
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Message 116036 - Posted: 2 May 2025, 13:37:54 UTC - in response to Message 116035.  

Most likely the default option and no one ever got around to changing it.
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Message 116040 - Posted: 2 May 2025, 20:52:55 UTC - in response to Message 116035.  

In reply to kotenok2000's message of 2 May 2025:
Why is /wiki/ disallowed?

/wiki/ anyway is deprecated and was moved to GitHub wiki
BOINC maintainer.
For any insight, check my BOINC Development Blog.
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