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What does altavista's crawler look like ?

         

diddlydazz

4:49 pm on Dec 6, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Can anyone tell me what to look for to see if altavista has indexed my site?

rogerd

4:56 pm on Dec 6, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Look for Scooter or trek in your logs to see if you have been crawled. Do a URL lookup at AV (url:mydomain.com) to see if you have been indexed. AV seems to do a lot more crawling than indexing. :(

bobriggs

4:56 pm on Dec 6, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Take a look:

[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

and
Search Engine World/Altavista [searchengineworld.com]

diddlydazz

4:59 pm on Dec 6, 2001 (gmt 0)

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thanks for the info guys and merry xmas :)

backus

1:31 pm on Dec 18, 2001 (gmt 0)

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I'd say it looks like a load of 1s and 0s....

isugari

10:19 pm on Dec 18, 2001 (gmt 0)

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AV's spider IPs would be coming from the 209.73.162.xxx subnets.