cadabra.com webcrawler

Have you seen this?

[coconutz]

Couldn't find this using site search, so I was wondering if anyone's seen this?

2002-07-17 06:40:10 64.15.193.12 GET /robots.txt- 200 cadabra.com+webcrawler

IP is Overture, www.cadabra.com redirects to Overture also.

[Josk]

Interesting...

I got hit on the day before yesterday. It only took 6 pages...

[coconutz]

No replies were posted so I called Overture customer support. I was told that cadabra.com is a search engine that was bought by Overture and that the webcrawler was being used to verify their partner's SERP's, and any click throughs would be filtered out.

It came back yesterday for a few more pages.

[Weblamer]

As of today, cadabra spider has been all over my site.

At first I thought it was overture checking the validity of a buncha keywords I just submitted. However, the keywords are usually checked under nat.overture.com

it seems to be a pretty aggressive spider. it's heavily crawling all my asp pages.

[Weblamer]

BTW, here is an old article, talking about back when overture was goto.com, and how they bought cadabra.

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