User-Agent: *
Disallow: /posts/
Disallow: /ask/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /users/login/
Disallow: /users/logout/
Disallow: /users/filter/
Disallow: /users/authenticate/
Disallow: /users/flair/
Disallow: /unanswered/
Disallow: /q/
Disallow: /messages/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /review/
Disallow: /*/ivc/*
Allow: /

#
# beware, the sections below WILL NOT INHERIT from the above!
# http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=40360
#

#
# disallow adsense bot, as we no longer do adsense.
#
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: / 

#
# Yahoo bot is evil.
#
User-agent: Slurp
Disallow: /

#
# Yahoo Pipes is for feeds not web pages.
#
User-agent: Yahoo Pipes 1.0
Disallow: /

#
# This isn't really an image
#
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /*/ivc/*

#
# this technically isn't valid, since for some godforsaken reason 
# sitemap paths must be ABSOLUTE and not relative. 
#
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml