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Google announced last Friday that they have created a new meta tag for webmasters to use with the Google bots. To anybody who thinks they have an idea of what the "unavailable_after" tag is, or isn’t, I say: phooey.
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from Sebastian 1756 Days ago #
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You should allow commenting on your blog ;) I get your point and linked to you but I stand by my post stating that this tag is totally and utterly useless for the average Webmaster, unless s/he gets employed by a newspaper too blind or too narrow minded to get the obvious. Google tried to talk Webmasters into this thingy and I bet that tons of lemmings will make use of it to tank assets, instead of milking them out. That’s wrong, and not nice. IMO the announcement is not really evil, but not compliant to Google’s motto. Also, it obfuscated the introduction of a really useful thingy: the X-Robots-Tag. I bet that some day I’ll stumble into a scenario where it makes sense. Ok, nice to have it then. But encouraging the great unwashed to put it on their expring pages deserves well meant critique.

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