Originally Posted by
itsaboutthejourney
Apparently Mr. Alexei Khokhlov's specialty is SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Expect more of this with your recently loosened requirements to be logged in, let alone a FT member to view posts by allowing "bots" to crawl your site.
His site is all about FT's Greatest Hits!
I am still annoyed by the opening of ALL of FT to crawlers, but the actions betray the intention, IMO.
If FT is all about the hits, it would logically follow that it would defend 'its' content and hits where possible.
On my understanding of how FT is being run to maximise hits, it would sooner get rid of this hit pirate than it would undo the bots / crawler / hit-increasing restructuring of this internet advertising business, known to us as
FlyerTalk.