Can I prevent Teoma/Ask search engine from showing a cached copy of my page?
Yes. We obey the “noarchive” meta tag. If you place the following command in your HTML page, we will not provide an archived copy of the document to the user. If you would like to specify this restriction just for Teoma/Ask, you may use “TEOMA” in place of “ROBOTS”. Q: Does Ask observe the Robot Exclusion Standard? A: Yes, we obey the 1994 Robots Exclusion Standard (RES), which is part of the Robot Exclusion Protocol. The Robots Exclusion Protocol is a method that allows Web site administrators to indicate to robots which parts of their site should not be visited by the robot. For more information on the RES, and the Robot Exclusion Protocol, please visit http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html. Q: Can I prevent the Ask crawler from indexing all or part of my site/URL? A: Yes. The Ask crawler will respect and obey commands that direct it not to index all or part of a given URL. To specify that the Ask crawler visit only pages whose paths begin with /public, include the following lin
