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    • SharieBags
      SharieBags last edited by

      I'm looking for confirmation here.  Do any search engine crawlers accept cookies?  I thought that the answer was always no, but we're looking in our weblogs and seeing some odd behavior.

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      • Brother22
        Brother22 last edited by

        The answer for all major search engines is no. There are some third party crawlers that have been created that do accept cookies. If you are using a site crawler to examine your site you might want to check to see if there is a cookie recognition function in the algo. Usually you can select to accept or ignore cookies though an internal site crawl but Google and Bing do not accept them.

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