I have a friend who has helped me out a lot with some of the content on my site, so I have acknowledgments to this friend wherever I had help. However, because the name of this friend is pretty common on the page, search engines tend to index the page for searches of this friend's name. However, my friend doesn't like having a lot of results turn up for the name, so right now I have the page set to disallow in the robots.txt. I'd like to both respect my friend's wishes and have the site indexed, so I was wondering if there is some way to tell search engines they are allowed to index the page, but not according to certain keywords.

Thanks,
~Viz

No, a page is searched or it isn't. Do user-only stuff to show his name maybe, like flash or javascript. There maybe an option in site submitter in Google, but I've never needed that.

That's what I thought. Oh well, it would be a useful feature for robots.txt, but I suppose it might be difficult to develop.

Thanks,
~Viz

You could write a small script that only shows your friend's name if the operating system is windows, macos or linux.