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wwwtyro
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Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others laun...
I can't begin to fathom a motivation for that. Can anyone think of a reason, or is this likely simply a mistake?
criswell
on Oct 8, 2012
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The site doesn't even seem close to being useful or complete yet. I think it's intentional.
acdha
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They didn't want search traffic until the content and structure start to stabilize? Google, et al. will crawl for years after a URL 404s so it might make sense to hold off until the first round of stabilization
desbest
on Oct 8, 2012
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Maybe someone from Facebook made the robots.txt file, ayyy!
thenonsequitur
on Oct 12, 2012
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The site was in super-alpha. I think it was intentional.
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