webfountain?

Anyone else seen this spider?

[eljefe3]

webfountain from almaden.ibm.com did a pretty thorough crawl. Is this for IBM's use or is this spider feeding any search engines? Thanks.

[redzone]

IBM had touted research into their own "hub authority" modeled search engine. Clever was the name floating through the web.

But I hadn't seen anything else mentioned about it for several months.

What is the IP address, and user agent that showed on the crawls?

[eljefe3]

Referrer logs showed the following:

wfp2.almaden.ibm.com - - [01/Oct/2000:10:45:45 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 139 "" "WebFountain "
wfp2.almaden.ibm.com - - [01/Oct/2000:10:46:16 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 10457 "" "WebFountain "

IP address is 198.4.83.38

Actual page is an IBM research page [almaden.ibm.com...]

[engine]

Seems to be busy - visits this week, again.