Search Engine Spider white list

We can spin wheels forever with all the uglies out there, or we can list (identify) the bots to allow.

# Whitelist
User-agent: Adsbot-Google
User-agent: BaiDuSpider
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
User-agent: Googlebot-News
User-agent: MSNBot
User-agent: MSNBot-Media
User-agent: MSNBot-News
User-agent: MSNPTC
User-agent: ScoutJet
User-agent: Slurp
User-agent: Teoma
User-agent: Yahoo-Blogs
User-agent: Yahoo-MMCrawler
User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /*?

# Blacklist
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

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