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Frappr is gone, Google not indexing the forum

Wed, 31 March 2010 06:23

gible

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I just noticed Frappr is no more, and with it the map of stars players that was embedded in the wiki. After poking around on Google they apparently spammed their users with a warning sometime last year with a 1/1/10 deadline and offering the chance to archive the map data. My last email from them was regarding a comment I left in 2008. Well poo. Sad

Shall look into creating a more custom Google map for it...the maps extension being already installed and all...

In a mostly unrelated note...a google site search of SAH completely omits HWF...WTF? Confused

TLA!

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Re: Frappr is gone, Google not indexing the forum

Thu, 01 April 2010 05:21

m.a@stars

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http://starsautohost.org/robots.txt

A simple measure to avoid email addresses being too easily harvested, I guess. Pirate

Unless Ron did it to avoid swamping good ole' Google with our traffic. Cool

[Updated on: Thu, 01 April 2010 05:23]

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Re: Frappr is gone, Google not indexing the forum

Thu, 01 April 2010 07:54

gible

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m.a@stars wrote on Thu, 01 April 2010 22:21

http://starsautohost.org/robots.txt

A simple measure to avoid email addresses being too easily harvested, I guess. Pirate

Unless Ron did it to avoid swamping good ole' Google with our traffic. Cool

I figured as much, the google bot is remarkably polite as webcrawlers go.

A map of players to add yourself to Smile

You'll need to fetch your lat/long from Google maps or something first.

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Re: Frappr is gone, Google not indexing the forum

Sun, 25 April 2010 20:07

finnw

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gible wrote on Thu, 01 April 2010 07:54

You'll need to fetch your lat/long from Google maps or something first.

It's surprisingly difficult to get a lat/long from Google Maps.

If you're in Great Britain, This site will give you the lat/long for a postcode. There are probably similar tools for other countries.

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Re: Frappr is gone, Google not indexing the forum

Mon, 26 April 2010 02:11

Marduk

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finnw wrote on Sun, 25 April 2010 20:07

gible wrote on Thu, 01 April 2010 07:54

You'll need to fetch your lat/long from Google maps or something first.

It's surprisingly difficult to get a lat/long from Google Maps.

If you're in Great Britain, This site will give you the lat/long for a postcode. There are probably similar tools for other countries.

I had quite a bit of trouble last time I wanted a coordinate, but this makes it fairly easy:

http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html

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Re: Frappr is gone, Google not indexing the forum

Mon, 26 April 2010 06:11

gible

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I just enabled the LatLng Tooltip and LatLng Marker in the Google Maps Labs but then I'm a googleslut.

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Re: Frappr is gone, Google not indexing the forum

Sun, 09 May 2010 02:42

Alter Ego

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Time to add a disclaimer:

Theancientone55 sitting in the middle of North America does not belong to the Ancient Order.

By order of the High Council of the Ancient Order,

Alter Ego

War does not determine who is right. Just who is left.
Bertrand Russell

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