IBM Supplying Anyone?

Getting hit, what for?

[internetheaven]

Recently I've been getting hit by an IBM crawler tagged as IBM Research Department. Anyone know if IBM supply search results to any search engines?

[Yidaki]

It's IBM's (Almaden Research Center) WebFountain:
[almaden.ibm.com...]

Crawling since ages (years). Formerly just Almaden Research Crawler - now called WebFountain.

Threads:

- IBM's WebFountain released - Oct 2003
[webmasterworld.com...]

- New player for search, IBM enters the race - Sep 2003
[webmasterworld.com...]

- IBM/Almaden in the news - Feb 2004
[webmasterworld.com...]

More threads about WebFountain. [google.com]