In a new Google Blog post, product manager Dan Crow formally introduced the “unavailable_after” meta tag, which can be used to identify a temporary page with a set shelf life.

In “Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility,” Crow explains:
For example, to specify that an HTML page should be removed from the search results after 3pm Eastern Standard Time on 25th August 2007, simply add the following tag to the first section of the page:

meta name=”GOOGLEBOT” content=”unavailable_after: 25-Aug-2007 15:00:00 EST”

Use of this tag will be treated by Google as a removal request, which should take effect the day after the removal date passes.

Thanks you Google! You have just provided us with the ideal Google Bowling tool.

Google does index html injections, making this the perfect injection to take down from index your competitor homepage!

You just need to find a XSS hole and it’s really easy these days with xss scanners and other tools available on the wild.

P.S: Add “header” to the injection.

Commentary

  1. Ben Cruikshank wrote on 29. Jul 2007

    I actually had to suppress a little evil cackle as I read this.

  2. matt wrote on 27. Sep 2007

    Great Article! Here is something more about google bowling

    http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/09/google-bowling.html

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