Google images and robots.txt
Apr 12, 2011
You may have received an email from Google yesterday, April 11, 2011, with the subject: "Important information about your Google Product Search images" The email describes an issue regarding a 'robots.txt' file preventing Google from accessing your images.
At this time, we believe this email was sent in error, and we are investigating the issue with Google and/or Yahoo Store. If there is any action that you need to take, we will send another announcement to let you know. Otherwise, please ignore the email for now.
In the meantime, you can follow the discussion thread in the Google Product Search Forum.
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