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by xavian 4475 days ago
I maintain web crawlers for a large internet portal and this stuff is a pain enough to deal with when people unintentionally make their websites recursive, much less INTENTIONALLY. facepalm At least google crawler had issues as well. Thanks a lot, troll. ;P
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You need to update those crawlers to enforce some hard limits on crawl depth, methinks, especially for low pagerank domains (if there's some easy way to estimate pagerank, i.e.).