[falter]

Hi there,
I'm very happy with the archive redirection. That's pretty slick stuff, and it seems to be working great. The sitemap submission to google hasn't really taken effect quite yet, but it's only be 36 hours since submission (I imagine that these things can take some time). Yahoo is going bonkers on us, though!

Anyway, I've submitted a bug/feature request to vbulletin as a result of installing this mod. You can see it here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/bugs3...iew&bugid=1576

Specifically, it has to do with the way in which $show['search_engine'] is defined, which seems important as it plays quite an important role in this particular mod.

Looking at the definition of $show['search_engine'] seemed important as I, like others, have noticed that sometimes googlebot doesn't want to get redirected from showthread to the archives.

(as seen in /includes/init.php)

$show['search_engine'] = ($vbulletin->superglobal_size['_COOKIE'] == 0 AND preg_match("#(google|msnbot|yahoo! slurp)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']));

As you can see, the vBulletin assumes that no search engine spider will ever use a cookie. I found the redirection to be more effective after removing the checking for the absence of a cookie, which resulted in this:

$show['search_engine'] = (true AND preg_match("#(google|msnbot|yahoo! slurp)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']));

Now, as you can see in my bug report, I'm not terribly satisfied with the way $show['search_engine'] is defined in the first place, but making the mod as seen above helped me out, some.

Hope this helps some of you guys...

~mike.