Frustration – Fixed
Posted: Sun 8 May, 2005 Filed under: D4D™, Geeky 5 Comments »Ha! Got it sorted.
Now, I could just send anything from Google Images to a simple “Page not found” error, or I could do a nice explanatory page. What do you think I should go for?
Oh, and if anyone else is interested in blocking Google Images totally, let me know. So long as you’re comfortable adding in a bit of PHP code to your page (I’m not sure how well it would work in (for example) blogger pages yet) then email me and I’ll see what I can do.
Did you try [or was it not possible] to use a .htaccess rule instead of PHP?
I suppose I could’ve done – but I’m nowhere near as familiar with .htaccess as I am with PHP, so that’s the method I went with.
I always blocked google full stop with a nice robots.txt – but it’s very cool to see that you can do things specifically.
I agree, robots.txt is a better option for global removal. However, I don’t mind google searches in general coming to me. It was just this one URL in images.google that was haunting me all the time, and becoming a real pain in the arse.
Therefore I was happier to just block images.google rather than all of it. It seemed like the best option at the time.
I’d be interested. Don’t mind people coming to look for pictures, but I get a bit narked at them thinking that because they’re on google, it’s like free stock photography.