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Apparently you're trying to cut down a tree in the forest with a red herring.

Google doesn't do what apple-tracker.com was doing.

Aside this thread, I'm not familiar with apple-tracker.com, however 'Froogle' (Google's shopping part of it's search engine) does do product searches, availability and price matching.

Froogle (when it existed; they killed it a while back) obeyed this, though: http://store.apple.com/robots.txt

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