SlySearch/1.0, why is this on my logs?

why would this be on my logs

[PinkPanther]

Howdy,

Wondering why this robot would visit my site? Any thoughts, has anyone seen this on their logs before?

Pink

[EliteWeb]

Maybe they are seeing if any of your webpages pirates intellectual property.

[PinkPanther]

Is that why they were running thru my registered trademark and copyright information?

Pink :)

[wilderness]

A Google search on" Sly Search"
turned up this URL
[slysearch.com...]

[wilderness]

Here is Sly's parent site
[iparadigms.com...]

[PinkPanther]

Thanks Wilderness,

Still wondering if anyone else has seen this robot on their logs or you only see it when someone uses this service?

Pink :)

[PinkPanther]

Here is a trial http://www.plagiarism.org/trial.html

Pink :)

[PinkPanther]

Found it on the logs http://www.plagiarism.org/crawler/robotinfo.html

Pink :)

P.S: Now hope that the real pink panther does not hunt me down for his intellectual property!

[wilderness]

<Still wondering if anyone else>

Intelectual is OUT of my league ;-)

I did look in my accumulated files of ISP's with zilch for sly.
In fact when I did a search at google on
"SlySearch/1.0" there was only a solitary result.
These types of results are log entries and generally result in pages.

[PinkPanther]

You and me both! This is my first run in with Sly in 5 years. It must be Pink Panther I tell you :)

Pink :)

[glowingdesigns]

I had a visit from Sly today too? What is up with that? Shrugging...

[coconutz]

We were visited by SlySearch/1.0 today also.

[wilderness]

Sly did me a few days ago :-)

I did some more looking and found this quite interesting.

IPARADIGMS.COM
202.58.96.0 - 202.58.127.255
netname PILNET
descr Pilipino Internet Inc.
descr Internet Service & Bandwidth Provider
country PH
admin-c DT94-AP, inverse
tech-c JH103-AP, inverse
mnt-by APNIC-HM, inverse
mnt-lower MAINT-PH-PILNET, inverse

end result is that I denied everyting I could.

[SmallTime]

And me also, they have been busy.

[EliteWeb]

Got hit by their page, on the robotsinfo page it says:

Don't let the name give you the wrong impression! We are not comparing your content against other content on the Internet. The information we are collecting from the Internet is used solely for the purposes of helping educational institutions compare their students' writings against the Internet.

[Conard]

I got hit by it also, only I thought it was a DOS attack.
They requested 580 pages that did not exist with all kinds of screwed up text.

Just banned it forever...

[korkus2000]

I had to ban them also. They are really covering some ground!

[przero2]

how do you ban them? what is put in .htaccess file? thanks

[sparrow]

I the last couple of days we've been hit with;
SlySearch;
Szukacz;
Aport;
and Mozi

Never heard of any of these

[wilderness]

<snip>how do you ban them?>

[searchengineworld.com...]

type in htaccess
You can also do a search at google

There are various and many different things which can be accomplished with htacccess depending upon what your hosting site/server has implemented.

[wilderness]

<snip>I the last couple of days we've been hit with;>
SlySearch;

Szukacz; [webmasterworld.com...]

Aport;

and Mozi (!) My Mozi! was a visitor from the University of Stutgart in Germany

[misosoph]

I had four requests with Mozi! on Wednesday. They were:

131.155.193.112 - Eindhoven University of Technology (Holland)
129.69.221.120 - University of Stuttgart (two requests)
129.27.3.52 - Technische Universitaet Graz (Austria)

These Mozi! requests come maybe twice a month from various universities (I remember one from Switzerland). The files requested via the 3 IPs above were different (but I don't remember if that has always been the case). I have no idea what's going on.

[sparrow]

Thanks Wilderness

I just looked up Aport, it looks to be Russian.