Invisible Websites.. real or fake?

[Sathish]

some search engines say themselves that it will show info even from invisible websites.
is it true..???

since i dont have programming knowledge in web development.. if its true, anybody tell me about the invisible sites and how it can be made..

[victor_rambo]

The term 'visibility' is used in the context of search engine visibility. When a website is not indexed(or just few non-useful pages are indexed), the site is said to be invisible to the search engines.

The causes of such invisibility could be with search engine optimization(SEO). An webpage author, at his wish, can also make the webpages invisible by using the META NOINDEX tag.

Search engines that claim to find invisible website are the ones with better(?) crawling. They may also not respect the META NOINDEX tag and index a page against the wish of the author.

[Sathish]

k..
making a invisible web site is legal or illegal..?

[victor_rambo]

^
perfectly legal.
But making a website for illegal purposes is obviously illegal :d

[Sathish]

thanks for quick response..

one more..
can you tell me the name of any invisible website..

[amizdu]

It is estimated that the Deep Web is many many times bigger than the Visible Web.
Yahoo tried to index these sites, don't know if they succeeded?!

[jal_desai]

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

The term 'visibility' is used in the context of search engine visibility. When a website is not indexed(or just few non-useful pages are indexed), the site is said to be invisible to the search engines.

+1. perfect.

However, i have seen (while checking my mail at Yahoo!) tht there were some ads that were invisible (literally) and they appear just over ur message list. so when u try to click the message the overlaid ad used to get clicked and i was redirected to some site. Tht was sick. since many months it has stopped..

[debsuvra]

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

The term 'visibility' is used in the context of search engine visibility. When a website is not indexed(or just few non-useful pages are indexed), the site is said to be invisible to the search engines.

The causes of such invisibility could be with search engine optimization(SEO). An webpage author, at his wish, can also make the webpages invisible by using the META NOINDEX tag.

Search engines that claim to find invisible website are the ones with better(?) crawling. They may also not respect the META NOINDEX tag and index a page against the wish of the author.

Can't one use 'disallow' in robots.txt for the same purpose ?

[mastermunj]

^^ Yes