Google and bugzilla.ubuntu.com

[Adam Lydick]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:55:04PM -0300, Alexandre Strube wrote:

>> Could a forward to the actual bug in malone be put there instead of the
>> current login dialog? What do you think?

> Bugzilla provided links to Malone for several months.  Now, we would prefer
> for it not to be indexed by search engines anymore and to take it down
> permanently.

Have you considered leaving a 301 around forever? I have quite a few old 
Bugzilla URLs in the wiki for all my laptop testing notes that are 
broken now. (Not to mention all the blog and forum posts that say 
something like "oh, look at the workaround at <bugzilla url>").

It doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to just leave around a 
dummy .php page (or Apache modrewrite directive) to translate the old URLs.

If you don't want it indexed by search engines -- you could exclude it 
with robots.txt, but still leave it intact for end-users.

Thanks,
Adam