madmac - 6:51 pm on Apr 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

Just a word of caution to anyone using Overture. Watch out for the bot, crawler.searchmarketing.yahoo.com (IP 66.35.192.197).

This guy is currently behaving really badly, sending an exorbitant amount of simultaneous requests sustained over long periods of time. It brought our server down on its knees several times. Essentially it was acting as a Denial of Service attack.

We've had to temporarily ban the bot until Yahoo can tame this wild beast and make it be a bit more considerate [hey Yahoo, not everyone has a server farm you know].