Intelliseek

brand protection robot

[ScottMcG]

I noticed the following user-agent in my logs from yesterday:
Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; Intelliseek; [whizbang.com...]

Looking at their website, I found the following service they provide:

Strengthens and protects corporations' valuable brand equity by providing early-warning/rumor management insight and consumer feedback on new product development and brands.

Also, in a press release (at [inxight.com...] from Inxight Software, I found the following:

Intelliseek will use this technology, along with its own proprietary technology, to automatically extract company related information from millions of Web sites.

This sounds like a brand protection service to me.

[carfac]

Scott:

Hey- Thanks for the info!

dave

[nativenewyorker]

ScottMcG,

What's are the IPs shown in your logs so that we can block them with .htaccess?

Ted

[ScottMcG]

So far, I have only seen it coming from 64-158-138-50.intelliseek.com.

[ScottMcG]

The user-agent for Intelliseek as morphed. I noticed the following in my webserver logfile:

64-158-138-50.intelliseek.com [20/Mar/2003:00:39:46 -0600] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 168 "-" "Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; BlogPulse; [whizbang.com...]  
Unfortunately, I was unable to find additional information regarding this agent.
		
			

[red_bull]

It hit my site about 2 weeks ago. Took the pages at a reasonable rate and respected robots.txt

From what I have read up about it it cawls the web at random lookiing for copyright and brand violation.

[wilderness]

64-158-138-50
Level 3 Communications, Inc.
NetRange: 64.152.0.0 - 64.159.255.255

Personally I've lost my tolerance for this entire backbone.
They CONSISTENTLY offer nothing except pests.