Thanks.

For the record:

I took a look at the robots.txt and they don't seem to do much except blocking any combination of www.com | www.net | .org to only allow www.perlmonks.org

# Please only spider http://www.perlmonks.org not http://perlmonks.org
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

[download]

I couldn't find any rules blocking /bare or /mobile

There are also at least two other pair domains m/qs\d+.pair.com/ showing up, which seem to be (have been?) used for development and have no robots.txt at all to block them.

edit

FWIW: there is also the separate issue of blocking ?displaytype= like xml or print , but I'm not sure if there is an accepted standard to block on /?searchstring patterns.

Update

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard

We could also use meta-tags to disallow print versions

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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In reply to Re^2: Searching the monastery with duckduckgo leads to ugly results by LanX
in thread Searching the monastery with duckduckgo leads to ugly results by LanX

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