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Duplicate content on cob-web

         

tictoc

2:06 am on Nov 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I recently noticed this site coming up in search engines with my content. I am not sure the purpose of this cob-web system. The problem is they index every URL already indexed in search engines and put cob-web.org:8888 at the end of every URL.

What can we do to stop this from happening? Is it causing duplicate content issues with Yahoo and Google?

jtara

5:26 pm on Nov 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Increase your server capacity.

What?

Increase your server capacity.

Say again?

Increase....

You've apparently been slashdotted at some point. You must have gotten some exposure on some high-visibility site that maxed-out your server capacity. So, somebody helpful posted a cob-webbed link to your site. This directs users to a cache of your content. (CoralCache is a more popular alternative.)

See here for details:

[cs.cornell.edu...]

The real problem here is the search engines. They should know about this, and not index Coralized or Cobwebbed URLs. (Or strip-off the cobweb part.)

I suppose you could find out where these links are posted, and request that they be changed.

tictoc

12:55 am on Nov 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Yahoo apparently doesn't know about it because it kept the entire cob-web part of the URL and did not have mine listed.