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Re: Whats this shit from micro$oft ?!?!

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From: David Chia
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 00:00
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David Higgins (dave.usenet@tripleg.com.au) wrote:
: Has anyone heard if micro$oft are planning a search engine.  Though this
: wouldn't
: explain the ingoring of robot.txt and the taking of images.  Although
: the stupidity
: of micro$oft and it's complete inability to understand the 'net would
: explain these.

Come to think of it, I was in US recently and M$ was in the process of
poaching top publishers and webmasters everywhere to set up their regional
web sites with local contents, life style info and entertainment guides.
This might explains why they need the gifs.

I've now found log that show their activities from 1 Jan though at that
time the traffic was very light and they were scanning for headers.

-- 
David Chia,
RMIT University
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Date: 1997/02/25
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