How do I hide javascript content from googlebot?

I have a piece of code that I'd rather google's spider did not follow.
Is this possible please?

Ciaran wrote on 28 jul 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:
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Only link URLs are "FOLLOWED", code is not.
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Or do you want it not to be "INDEXED"?
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<http://www.google.com/support/webmasters>
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Not really on topic for javascript, meseems.
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"Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.netwrote in message
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Sorry, you're right. I have a bit of javascript code that I dont want to
google to index. Is there a Javascript method to hide this code from the
crawler?

Ciaran wrote on 28 jul 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:
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No, not with clientside javascript.
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You could test for the word "googlebot" with serverside jscriptin
Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT"),
but I doubt Google will ever visit your site, if they find out.
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Anyhow, why would you want to do that?
Is your scripting so unique and valuable,
that anyone would be interested?
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If so, use serverside techniques, which codes are hidden by default.
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Ciaran wrote:

You could test for the word "googlebot" with serverside jscriptin
Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT"),
but I doubt Google will ever visit your site, if they find out.

"Evertjan." wrote:
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You shouldn't do that.

The Robots Exclusion Protocol contains widely
accepted rules how to keep crawlers away from your website, or from
some parts of it. Just create a file named "robots.txt" in your
website's root directory.
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This "robots.txt"-file keeps all robots out of .js files:
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.js$
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This "robots.txt"-file tells (only) Google to stay away from
directory /javascript/:
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User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /javascript/
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Information:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_Exclusion_Standard
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=33570

Bart Van der Donck wrote on 29 jul 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:
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Do what? Ever visit his site when you are Google?

My interpretation of "a piece of code" is inHTML code,
not a complete .js file.

"Evertjan." wrote:
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I think it's better to use robots.txt rather than reading out the UA,
and then decide to (whether or not) output javascript code based on
that info.
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The general goal is not clear for me. Crawlers don't do much with
javascript; at best they may detect some hyperlinks to index them. So
what's the use of hiding js code for crawlers ? Preventing the code to
be displayed in search results ? I'ld say a well-programmed crawler
wouldn't do that. Preventing source code to influence algorithms like
PageRank ?
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When I read the orignal poster's sentence "I have a piece of code that
I'd rather google's spider did not follow", I surmised he meant a a
separate .js file, because that's the only thing a bot could follow.
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