Googlified

Google today added a brand new entry to their robots.txt, as Garret Rogers noticed.

Disallow: /reviews/search?

The entry, which as many of you can recognizes, is telling crawl-bots not to go to anything under Google.com/reviews/search?. Of course, we are not robots, therefore we can go. :D This turns out to be a page that shows your ratings on Google Base items and all the bookmarks from Google Toolbar. Rather than having the reviews of the Base items, I would like it to list my reviews on Google Videos.

Obviously, this service is not yet ready for release - I reviewed the items on the screen shot above a few days ago when Google Base added their rating feature, how can it be Jan 14, 1970? More importantly, I was not yet born!(perhaps I have the ability go to the future and back to the past:))

UPDATE: The URL http://google.com/reviews is a movie review service.

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