Comments on: Journatic’s hiding game https://danwin.com/2012/07/journatics-hiding-game/ Words, photos, and code by Dan Nguyen. The 'g' is mostly silent. Sun, 07 Dec 2025 04:13:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: The Week That Journalism Got Meta | Techli https://danwin.com/2012/07/journatics-hiding-game/#comment-42210 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:59:43 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=2108#comment-42210 […] asking about the the Tribune’s growing association with Journatic. Journalist Dan Nguyen published his discovery that Journatic’s website included a piece of code in the meta data that stops Google from […]

]]> By: Mark https://danwin.com/2012/07/journatics-hiding-game/#comment-2462 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:14:20 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=2108#comment-2462 Ha, that’s funny! They were on to our tricks here in Beverly Hills. For years the city had embedded ‘no follow’ code in its robots.txt file – one of only two of the 88 cities in Los Angeles County to do so, I let City Hall know. Once I called it out, of course, it became an “oversight” and was blamed on the website contractor.

Presumably ‘no follow’ was used to prevent indexing of PUBLIC documents accessible though the site. But my city doubled down by also generating most of those documents as image-based PDFs, meaning that they weren’t easily indexed in any case. So much for ‘public.’

]]> By: Journatic and the newspapers of the future at B12 Solipsism https://danwin.com/2012/07/journatics-hiding-game/#comment-2452 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:34:43 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=2108#comment-2452 […] search results to find the company’s bare-bones website, because the site itself, as one blogger has reported, contains code that eliminates it from Google search […]

]]> By: My adventures in Journatic’s new media landscape of outsourced hyperlocal news | Ryan Smith — Mask-Africa Renewable Energy https://danwin.com/2012/07/journatics-hiding-game/#comment-2451 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:01:59 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=2108#comment-2451 […] through search results to find the company’s bare-bones website, because the site itself, as one blogger has reported, contains code that eliminates it from Google search […]

]]> By: My adventures in Journatic’s new media landscape of outsourced hyperlocal news | BizNax https://danwin.com/2012/07/journatics-hiding-game/#comment-2449 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:27:08 +0000 https://danwin.com/?p=2108#comment-2449 […] through search results to find the company’s bare-bones website, because the site itself, as one blogger has reported, contains code that eliminates it from Google search […]

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