Become.com Goes Live with Web's Largest Search Engine for U.S. Shoppin

Press release went out - site still says BETA though...

[christopher w]

April 11, 2005--Become.com (www.become.com), a search engine that helps people find product reviews and relevant buying information, today announced the launch of a new 3.2 billion page shopping index, registration-free access to its search engine, and the introduction of product-focused spell checking. These milestones emphasize Become.com's commitment to providing shoppers with the most trusted, comprehensive, and easy-to-use source for product reviews and information.

Official Press Release Link [home.businesswire.com]

[moltar]

Do they have their own index?

[moltar]

Apprently John Glick has left Yahoo to join the Become team and Chris Kermoian, formerly of Alta Vista is the Vice President of Product Management.

[CSE_Monkey]

Yes they do. Pulled from their site:

"Become.com's new index includes over 3.2 billion pages of shopping related information from more than 40 million web sites."

See the link here:

[become.com...]

[sandor]

i saw this become.com in my logs .. thought it was some new site owner trying to spoof hits for people to go visit his site.

[larryhatch]

Becomebot spiders my site all the time. I don't have anything for sale,
not even tee-shirts or coffee mugs.
I'd like to see how I'm listed, if at all. -Larry

[The Contractor]

I blocked that a long time ago from all sites (they are/were not shopping sites) . It crawls way to agressively and although they state they obey robots.txt I did not find this to be the case - unless they only checked for robots.txt on the 1st visit and do not thereafter. I had to block them via .htaccess.