Updated robots.txt file

Cathalog

Unsure whether to mark this as a bug/feature suggestion really!

I'm just curious if boards.ie purposely updated their robots.txt file?

I find it more difficult finding the boards.ie result I'm looking for through google with this change.

If it is not a bug, can I suggest you revert the change?

Boards.ie: Chris

Hi Cathalog,

We haven't made any changes to the robots file on about a year, and that was a very minor one at that. Can I ask what sort of searches are throwing up problems for you, and I'll see if we find the issue.

Thanks,

Chris

Cathalog

Hi Chris. Just played around with it a bit there.

The issue seems to only occur on my iPhone 5S (latest OS). If I do a google search on this phone, any Boards result shows "A description of this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt".
Doesn't seem to occur on my laptop / desktop.

Do a search for "boards three 4g" on a phone to see if you can reproduce it!

Boards.ie: Chris

Hey Cathalog,

Thanks for flagging this. We had a look at it towards the end of last week and found that a configuration decision had been made many years ago that was correct at the time but not for now. We've since put changes in place that will improve our mobile searches and should give more informative results. Hopefully this gives your more useful search results going forward.

Thanks again for bringing it to our attention.


Chris

Cathalog

Hi Chris,

No problem! Thanks for sorting it out