GalaxyBot/1.0

new bot?

[moltar]

I've searched WW for GalaxyBot and didn't anything. Is it a new bot?

Here is quote from a log file:

63.121.41.177 - - [05/Aug/2003:02:34:13 -0400] "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" 200 0 "-" "GalaxyBot/1.0 (http://www.galaxy.com/galaxybot.html)" "www.example.com"
63.121.41.176 - - [05/Aug/2003:02:34:15 -0400] "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" 200 0 "-" "GalaxyBot/1.0 (http://www.galaxy.com/galaxybot.html)" "www.example.com"
63.121.41.178 - - [05/Aug/2003:02:53:32 -0400] "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" 200 0 "-" "GalaxyBot/1.0 (http://www.galaxy.com/galaxybot.html)" "www.example.com"
63.121.41.178 - - [05/Aug/2003:02:53:32 -0400] "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" 200 0 "-" "GalaxyBot/1.0 (http://www.galaxy.com/galaxybot.html)" "www.example.com"

(those were actually 4 different domains hosted on the same IP/log file...

[jeremy goodrich]

Could be new, that site has been around forever.

[moltar]

Yes, I know aboutthe site, but I have never seen their bot.

I just noticed, it also comes with the following UA:

63.121.41.176 - - [04/Aug/2003:03:06:08 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 33 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; www.galaxy.com; www.example.com; +http://www.galaxy.com/info/crawler.html)" "www.example.com"
63.121.41.178 - - [04/Aug/2003:04:38:13 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 1551 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; www.galaxy.com; www.example.com; +http://www.galaxy.com/info/crawler.html)" "www.example.com"

Notice: it includes the URL that it visits in the UA string... strange stuff.

Here is a quote from the their site:

GalaxyBot is a new spider developed by the Internet's first directory provider Galaxy.com. In addition to providing highly relevant directory results, Galaxy.com will soon be offering full-text searches from across the web, searching billions of documents.

Though it does not say how "new" the spider is. That page is not dated or anything...

Seems like we are getting a new search engine to play with :)

[edited by: moltar at 9:50 pm (utc) on Aug. 5, 2003]

[bcolflesh]

By submitting your site to a Galaxy Directory or Vertical Engine, you agree to accept emails from and for products developed by LOGIKA Corporation and/or its partners.

- pay us to spam you!

[moltar]

The funny thing, I didn't even submit my URL to them.

[sidyadav]

Could be a good search engine... Because my site isn't that popular and this GalaxyBot thing found it! It usally takes/took about 2 to 3 months for other bots/search engines (like Google) to find my URL. I just saw GalaxyBot in my logs!

Regards,
Sid

[moltar]

Yes, same as me. My site was only week old and galaxy noticed it.

[grey259]

It's easy to find out which websites are new or not. There's a listing of all the domains on the net, updated daily. New domains are just the difference between two days lists.

The best measure of quality in a search engine is both the amount and quality of traffic you are able to get it to send you.