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Does it seem naive to anyone else to allow site owners to update the index and stop spidering. a) lots of people for various reasons (ignorance, security through obscurity) would just not update it and stuff would fall out of search. Second, this seems incredibly ripe for abuse. Like we don't have enough search spam result problems already, letting spammers have more direct access to the content going into their rankings seems like a truly bad idea.


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