'grub'

uhh, what is he?

[ga_ga]

This little feller 'grub' turned up poking around in my logs earlier. Seemed quite polite, didn't hammer the server, and identified himself, directing me to this forum..

http://www.grub.org/forums/index.php

What is his purpose in life? not quite sure I understand! A database-generating crawler that doesn't have an associated search feature, it seems kinda creepy if you ask me. Maybe I'm being paranoid, someone put me straight?

[mack]

From what I have heard about grub they are a search engine but they do not host the crawlers. Users can volunteer to let grup work from their system and in doing so help to build a searchable database. In a way like the odp but it's the open search engine project.

To be honest I dont think it will ever come to anything, but who knows. It almost always respects robots.txt to I let it be.

[EliteWeb]

Take a look at some of the threads on grub by searching for it using the site search [searchengineworld.com], this may help you better understand its activities and purposes. On a side note I like their worm guy :D

[MarieC]

That worm guy is kinda cute. The following was in my Raw log yesterday:

24.138.50.177 - - [08/Mar/2003:17:21:05 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 622 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; grub-client-1.0.7; Crawl your own stuff with http://grub.org)"