210.187.13.114

Spider crawls message boards.

[Key_Master]

I made a personal vow not to report any new bots I find but this one is truly unique. Definitely worth a look.

IP: 210.187.13.114
User-Agent: Mozilla

Spider for [messageking.com...] . Indexes message threads and forum logo.

From MessageKing Website:

MessageKing allows you to search messages and message boards across the internet. With carefully categorised topics from different sites, search results will always be relevant to what you are looking for. The popularity of message boards makes it a great source of interactive information. MessageKing saves you time and effort by allowing you to search message boards with a single click.

[brotherhood of LAN]

Im not "up there" with the rest of you hunting down these spiders but that one defintely looks unique.

Just as I am about to launch a forum, I thank you for this find :)

[littleman]

Clever idea. Looks like it just parses UBB?

[volatilegx]

If they could figure out a way to spider message boards other than UBB, they'd become a real resource!

[Key_Master]

They have Yahoo Message boards indexed (don't know if they use UBB). It's possible that to build up their index very quickly that they are using a list of licensed UBB forums.

One thing is for sure, It visits my forums quite frequently although none of the pages are in their index.

[Brett_Tabke]

I'd like to know their qualifications for adding forums? I've added several and never seen them spidered.

[Crazy_Fool]

i've never seen any of my message boards spidered either ... cant even get google to spider the ASP ones even though it happily spiders databases via ASP ... maybe this one will encourage the other engines to send spiders into our message boards as well?