[scilab-Users] Fileexchange & Atoms resources hidden to Open Search engines

[Adrien Vogt-Schilb]

Hi

For the record, I agree.

As a file user (not sharer), i find it very unpractical not being able 
to reach something on atoms or fileexchange just by typing the name on 
google.

Just an example: 
http://www.google.com/search?q=atoms+scilab+mingw&hl=en   How could this 
search not return http://atoms.scilab.org/toolboxes/mingw/ ?

I actually spend part of my time showing my colleagues where to get 
mingw for scilab. I would really prefer google to do it for me.

Best regards


On 16/04/2012 15:57, sgougeon at free.fr wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Beeing a sharer on Scilab Filexchange, i was wondering
> about why resources uploaded there are not referenced
> by Search engines like Google. The reason is that
> http://fileexchange.scilab.org/robots.txt
> is presently set to
>
> User-agent: *
> Allow: /index.cgi
> Disallow: /
>
> where / disallows all pages -- included the portal --
> to be referenced, and where /index.cgi  does not exists
> and returns a 404 error.
>
> The situation is the same for the ATOMS's portal for external
> modules: http://atoms.scilab.org/robots.txt
>
> User-agent: *
> Allow: /index.cgi
> Disallow: /
>
> whereas the bug
> http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10896
> also prevents the Scilab ATOMS interface to propose many
> available resources.
>
> For my part, i do not see any interest in going on
> uploading resources that i want to share if it is on
> a site that hides them from Search engines robots.
> These ones should be able to scan and refer to all
> pages of these resources.
> Otherwise, it would be easy and more consistent to
> upload resources elsewhere and just to set on fileexchange
> a pointer to them.
>
> Hoping to read other scilab users about that (since
> other potential users cannot be reached and polled ;)
>
> Best regards
> Samuel Gougeon
>
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