Yesterday Philipp Lenssen found that Google has added “/rebang” to their robots.txt file. Usually when Google is going to launch a new service or channel, they add that site to this file.
Philipp asks “Does anyone know what Rebang is?”
Possible scenarios:
Rebang.com is a 3d design company, is Google planning on acquiring this company for its second life style 3D interface?
No, the owner of Rebang.com comments on Philipp’s blog and shot down that notion.
Instead, Rebang = è°·æŒçƒæ¦œ!
That’s right, Rebang is Chinese for ‘Hot Ranking‘ and Google Rebang will be a Chinese language Zeitgeist.
But why is this not hosted on Google.cn?
Because doing so would mean that Rebang would fall under Chinese legal jurisdiction and since not all people who search for Chinese language terms on Google live in mainland China, Google Rebang should show a more transparent and honest view of what people are searching for in Chinese.
More from Google Magazine (In Chinese)
I tried to go there but got 404
http://www.google.com/rebang/home
Thanks ahkip.
Google has added it to their robots.txt file, but it is not live yet.
Check out the last Disallow:
User-agent: *
Allow: /searchhistory/
Disallow: /news?output=xhtml&
Allow: /news?output=xhtml
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /groups
Disallow: /images
Disallow: /catalogs
Disallow: /catalogues
Disallow: /news
Disallow: /nwshp
Disallow: /?
Disallow: /addurl/image?
Disallow: /pagead/
Disallow: /relpage/
Disallow: /relcontent
Disallow: /sorry/
Disallow: /imgres
Disallow: /keyword/
Disallow: /u/
Disallow: /univ/
Disallow: /cobrand
Disallow: /custom
Disallow: /advanced_group_search
Disallow: /advanced_search
Disallow: /googlesite
Disallow: /preferences
Disallow: /setprefs
Disallow: /swr
Disallow: /url
Disallow: /m?
Disallow: /m/search?
Disallow: /wml?
Disallow: /wml/search?
Disallow: /xhtml?
Disallow: /xhtml/search?
Disallow: /xml?
Disallow: /imode?
Disallow: /imode/search?
Disallow: /jsky?
Disallow: /jsky/search?
Disallow: /pda?
Disallow: /pda/search?
Disallow: /sprint_xhtml
Disallow: /sprint_wml
Disallow: /pqa
Disallow: /palm
Disallow: /gwt/
Disallow: /purchases
Disallow: /hws
Disallow: /bsd?
Disallow: /linux?
Disallow: /mac?
Disallow: /microsoft?
Disallow: /unclesam?
Disallow: /answers/search?q=
Disallow: /local?
Disallow: /local_url
Disallow: /froogle?
Disallow: /froogle_
Disallow: /print
Disallow: /books
Disallow: /patents?
Disallow: /scholar?
Disallow: /complete
Disallow: /sponsoredlinks
Disallow: /videosearch?
Disallow: /videopreview?
Disallow: /videoprograminfo?
Disallow: /maps?
Disallow: /translate?
Disallow: /ie?
Disallow: /sms/demo?
Disallow: /katrina?
Disallow: /blogsearch?
Disallow: /blogsearch/
Disallow: /blogsearch_feeds
Disallow: /advanced_blog_search
Disallow: /reader/
Disallow: /uds/
Disallow: /chart?
Disallow: /transit?
Disallow: /mbd?
Disallow: /extern_js/
Disallow: /calendar/feeds/
Disallow: /calendar/ical/
Disallow: /cl2/feeds/
Disallow: /cl2/ical/
Disallow: /coop/directory
Disallow: /coop/manage
Disallow: /trends?
Disallow: /trends/music?
Disallow: /notebook/search?
Disallow: /music
Disallow: /browsersync
Disallow: /call
Disallow: /archivesearch?
Disallow: /archivesearch/url
Disallow: /archivesearch/advanced_search
Disallow: /base/search?
Disallow: /base/reportbadoffer
Disallow: /base/s2
Disallow: /urchin_test/
Disallow: /movies?
Disallow: /codesearch?
Disallow: /codesearch/feeds/search?
Disallow: /wapsearch?
Disallow: /safebrowsing
Disallow: /finance
Disallow: /reviews/search?
Disallow: /rebang
Quote from Googlified,
“The page is divided into many sections, displaying the top queries in different categories. Some of the categories are Computer Games, Computer Softwares, TV Shows, Online Novel, Music, Movie, and Celebrities, of course.”
it’s zeitgeIst, illiterate scum!
Not Found
Error 404
I am from China.
I hope we will see the ReBang soon.
http://blog.rebang.com
aha ..
(…the hits just keep coming…)
Because there seems to be a lot of people reading this piece of news, for the record, reBang is *not* a “3D design company”. It’s a design consultancy, and most of what’s provided to clients are ideas and concepts which are not – and sometimes can not – be modeled in 3D.
Cheers.