AboutUs

AboutUs is a website directory wiki, with a confusing exlusion policy - while websites are freely included when spidered, their entries cannot be removed. AboutUs is widely considered a useless, non-contributory spam site, with high levels of spam search engine results.

Unlike popular wiki's such as Wikipedia, AboutUs is a for profit website, rather than a charitable organisation.

The AboutUs bot can be blocked by adding the following line in a websites robots.txt file, although there are claims that the AboutUsBot will not follow these instructions.

User-agent: AboutUsBot
Disallow: /

AboutUs uses the domain aboutus.org.

Similar websites include domaintools.com, builtwith.com, and websiteoutlook.com.

AboutUs is a definition, listed in the web development category. This entry was created on 27 October 2008, at 23:36 , and was last updated on 29 June 2009, at 00:46.  

About the author

Nick Johnston is a self employed computing consultant, working in several facets of the IT industry. With an initial interest in business and computer security, his roles have spread to many other areas.

Nick is currently available for project and contract work - contact Nick for more information.