As Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster points out in this Law.com news item, "Most of these companies/organizations have as much (or more) at stake in this matter than we do. As many people already know, Craigslist is being sued under federal housing...
This Saturday's Wall Street Journal featured an intriguing piece about Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster as told from the first person perspective of WSJ editorial board member Brian Carney (Zen and the Art of Classified Advertising, June 17).
Craiglist chief executive Jim Buckmaster told me via email: Aside from anyone being able to check on this, Buckmaster himself wasn't aware
of any reason that content should have gone missing from the major crawlers.
Craigslist chief executive Jim Buckmaster told me via email: Buckmaster said the robots.txt file at Craigslist was last updated in October 2004, so he assumes that's when the lines were added. Aside from anyone being able to check on this...