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		tjgq on March 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A website that deletes itself once indexed by Goog... Then anyone would be able to trigger the autodestruct by spoofing their UA.

desdiv on March 8, 2015 [–]

Googlebot's identity can the authenticated to prevent spoofing:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en

tjgq on March 8, 2015 | [–]

I actually wasn't aware of that! Thanks for the link.

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