Qihoo Search: Dead on Arrival?

[bill]

This article doesn't really answer the question it asks, but there is some decent general background on Qihoo 360.

Qihoo Search: Dead on Arrival? [searchenginewatch.com]

Should we in the search industry consider Qihoo now that the dust settled? Well, yes and no, and it's still too early to tell.

How's your traffic from Qihoo 360?

[Leosghost]

Because someone has too :) ..
Qihoo? ..

[SevenCubed]

:) we need chuckles like this when things start getting too serious, and for Leosghost and I, and maybe other Frenchies, that's an echo -- qui (prounced like qi) is who in French...ahhh never mind you have to be there...it looses it's affect when explained away :(

[Leosghost]

that's an echo -- qui (prounced like qi) is who in French..

which made me smile first time I ever heard it ( clue ..it becomes a bad word..not what you'd want to call your searchengine, unless it was for pron ) the first time I heard it and realised that the Chinese don't speak Franglais..nor Quebecquish[sic]..

[Leosghost]

..Qihoo reminds me of altavista..keyword stuffing makes it roll over and put it's paws in the air..( it also appears to have built in Forex ? ..unlike altavista )..and it returns a lot of pages from Baidu ( which is probably Baidu's fault for allowing their results to be scraped..or maybe it is returning Baidu subdomians ? ..my reading of Chinese is a long way from any good so the Baidu pages in Qihoo's results may well be the latter )..SEO for Qihoo wouldn't tax anyone..

[lucy24]

But seriously folks...

Do/did they have a robot? What's it called? Apparently not qihoo, unless they limited their crawling to Chinese sites.

nor Quebecquish [sic]

How do you pronounce that? Rhymes with squish? Or is the q just for decoration?

:: idly wondering if I can convince a Chinese search engine that naaraajiiruluk means "My esteemed colleague from Montreal" ::

[bill]

Do/did they have a robot? What's it called? Apparently not qihoo, unless they limited their crawling to Chinese sites.

Apparently it is called 360Spider

[lucy24]

Apparently it is called 360Spider

:: shuffling papers ::

Good heavens, there it is. Forged referer, Chinese IP, Firefox version ONE (!), yawn. Must be building on someone else's information, or they wouldn't be heading straight for interior pages.

61.55.185.112 - - [17/Aug/2012:11:06:30 -0700] "GET /hovercraft/hovercraft.html HTTP/1.1" 403 918 "http://173.236.135.12/hovercraft/hovercraft.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11; 360Spider" 

182.118.22.226 - - [19/Aug/2012:05:40:47 -0700] "GET /ebooks/grandmother/Grandmother.html HTTP/1.1" 403 918 "http://173.236.135.12/ebooks/grandmother/Grandmother.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/20070312 Firefox/1.5.0.11; 360Spider" 

I don't know what 173.et cetera is, but it's not me. Well, maybe it was me in August; the range does belong to my host.