Just noticed something interesting.
(content as of 8:42PM 08/08/2007)
http://local.google.com/robots.txt
Allow: /searchhistory/
Disallow: /news?output=xhtml&
Allow: /news?output=xhtml
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /groups
Disallow: /images
Disallow: /catalogs
Disallow: /catalogues
Disallow: /news
Disallow: /nwshp
Disallow: /?
Disallow: /addurl/image?
Disallow: /pagead/
Disallow: /relpage/
Disallow: /relcontent
Disallow: /sorry/
Disallow: /imgres
Disallow: /keyword/
Disallow: /u/
Disallow: /univ/
Disallow: /cobrand
Disallow: /custom
Disallow: /advanced_group_search
Disallow: /advanced_search
Disallow: /googlesite
Disallow: /preferences
Disallow: /setprefs
Disallow: /swr
Disallow: /url
Disallow: /default
Disallow: /m?
Disallow: /m/search?
Disallow: /wml?
Disallow: /wml/search?
Disallow: /xhtml?
Disallow: /xhtml/search?
Disallow: /xml?
Disallow: /imode?
Disallow: /imode/search?
Disallow: /jsky?
Disallow: /jsky/search?
Disallow: /pda?
Disallow: /pda/search?
Disallow: /sprint_xhtml
Disallow: /sprint_wml
Disallow: /pqa
Disallow: /palm
Disallow: /gwt/
Disallow: /purchases
Disallow: /hws
Disallow: /bsd?
Disallow: /linux?
Disallow: /mac?
Disallow: /microsoft?
Disallow: /unclesam?
Disallow: /answers/search?q=
Disallow: /local?
Disallow: /local_url
Disallow: /froogle?
Disallow: /products?
Disallow: /froogle_
Disallow: /product_
Disallow: /products_
Disallow: /print
Disallow: /books
Disallow: /patents?
Disallow: /scholar?
Disallow: /complete
Disallow: /sponsoredlinks
Disallow: /videosearch?
Disallow: /videopreview?
Disallow: /videoprograminfo?
Disallow: /maps?
Disallow: /translate?
Disallow: /ie?
Disallow: /sms/demo?
Disallow: /katrina?
Disallow: /blogsearch?
Disallow: /blogsearch/
Disallow: /blogsearch_feeds
Disallow: /advanced_blog_search
Disallow: /reader/
Disallow: /uds/
Disallow: /chart?
Disallow: /transit?
Disallow: /mbd?
Disallow: /extern_js/
Disallow: /calendar/feeds/
Disallow: /calendar/ical/
Disallow: /cl2/feeds/
Disallow: /cl2/ical/
Disallow: /coop/directory
Disallow: /coop/manage
Disallow: /trends?
Disallow: /trends/music?
Disallow: /notebook/search?
Disallow: /music
Disallow: /browsersync
Disallow: /call
Disallow: /archivesearch?
Disallow: /archivesearch/url
Disallow: /archivesearch/advanced_search
Disallow: /base/search?
Disallow: /base/reportbadoffer
Disallow: /base/s2
Disallow: /urchin_test/
Disallow: /movies?
Disallow: /codesearch?
Disallow: /codesearch/feeds/search?
Disallow: /wapsearch?
Disallow: /safebrowsing
Disallow: /reviews/search?
Disallow: /orkut/albums
Disallow: /jsapi
Disallow: /views?
Disallow: /c/
Disallow: /cbk
Disallow: /recharge/dashboard/car
Disallow: /recharge/dashboard/static/
Disallow: /translate_s?
Disallow: /s2
Disallow: /transconsole/portal/
http://local.yahoo.com/robots.txt
Disallow:
Who's more open?
(For the non-geek, a quick example to show what i'm talking about)
In that case pretty much all of the disallow's are search forms. Most of which are available on other hostnames, so I guess they're preventing http://local.google.com/cobrand (and so on) from showing up in search results.
Patrick: There's a fair number of base URLs in there that aren't search forms. (news, groups, univ), as well as some sites that are nothing but search results (local, maps, etc.)
[begin personal diatribe]
ech: While I'm obviously not going to comment directly on the current investigation into some lawyer's sloppy work (since I don't have any specifics), and while I too wish that China had more faith in their government system, I will note that the more talked about case started when a guy in a country known as a highly oppressive one to it's citizens, received a document that said "Don't leak this" and then turns right around and posts it from a website also well known to be under said regime's monitoring, it's really hard to see that there can't be repercussions for said individual.
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Yes, Yahoo! is definitely more open… with giving political dissidents' information to dictatorial governments, etc… You seem to have a bone to pick with Google's motto; I'm not sure comparing it to Yahoo! is the best way to make that point.