How to search MI5
3 Comments Published September 27th, 2007 14:46 Tags: Google, MI5, Phil Bradley, Search, TipsPhil Bradley shows people how to search the MI5 website, although the MI5 search is currently not working.
Needless to say, he uses Google ;-)
PS: If the MI5 website uses a robots.txt to avoid the search robots crawling the web, I don't assume that the above tip will work…
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No, they don't use a robots.txt file – it's one of the things that I checked. The search option works reasonably well. It certainly works better than MI5's offering!
Yeah, it sure is. But if MI5 decided to use robots.txt, then the search engine wouldn't work, right?
// Lars
That's correct, it wouldn't have worked – with Google. That's not however to say that all search engines will honour the robots.txt file.