Yahoo Robot - YahooSeeker/CafeKelsa-dev

YahooSeeker/CafeKelsa-dev

[Hollywood]

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Anyone know what this is?

YahooSeeker/CafeKelsa-dev

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 5:18 pm (utc) on May 2, 2005]

[textex]

"YahooSeeker/CafeKelsa-dev (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; FreeBSD ;[e-mail] )

What is this?

[volatilegx]

What IP addresses have you seen it coming from?

[Hollywood]

Here is what I have, seems to be one hit. Any ideas?

Yahoo Robot - YahooSeeker/CafeKelsa-dev

64.157.137.225 - - [30/Mar/2005:02:59:26 -0700] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200
(compatible; Konqueror/3.2; FreeBSD ;[e-mail] )

[textex]

Hollywood,
Did you recently ask for a review for reinclusion of your site?

[volatilegx]

By the way [e-mail] is for a mailing list. My inquiry via email was rejected.

A Yahoo search for CafeKelsa-dev turned up this cached page [216.109.117.135].

Look on item #150 at the bottom and you'll see a reference to CafeKelsa-dev as a development project which spiders websites for job listings. Note that the IP address is owned by Hotjobs, which is in turn owned by Yahoo.

[Hollywood]

No review asked for on my end.

[textex]

Hmmm......very interesting!

[Hollywood]

Another odd sighting - saw many pages

Ip
64.157.137.225

Name
kelsa08.hj.ny1.yahoo.com

[wilderness]

I've been getting sporadic referrals from HotJobs for some time. (403'd)
I was unaware of the connection between them and Yahoo, however I still don't care for the referrals from a jobs site which are not related to my content.
It's deception at it's best.

Don

[Hollywood]

wilderness

You are asying this is Hotjobs?

What is the purpose, I did just notice them or someone sending me some job possibility leads, you think they are finding sites with job opening posts and then sending "Stuff" to those sites?

All of a sudden I am getting jop opportunity stuff in my mailbox... hmmmm..

[wilderness]

Hollywood,
There is likely just a search option on the hotjobs site. I haven't looked in some time.
These types of searches with google offer a "our site or the web" option.

I guess it's possibe there is some correlation between the two and spam, however I'm NOT aware of it.

My preferecne to deny the referrals is because my sites are "not" even closely related to job seekers.

Don

edited: see the closing line of Dan's mail #6 in this thread.

[IrishWonder]

kelsa04.hj.ny1.yahoo.com - - [01/Apr/2005:09:55:56 +0300] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 48 "-" "YahooSeeker/CafeKelsa-dev (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; FreeBSD ;[e-mail] ) (KHTML, like Gecko)

This was in my log this morning. No request on my side to respider anything, except for one in my thoughts, most of the content that's indexed by Yahoo on my side is long ago outdated... Checked Yahoo after I saw this and it's still the same outdated content indexed, but what should I expect, this mysterious robot only asked for robots.txt and left...

[Marketing Guy]

I read a report ages ago about another major job board proposing to populate their DB using data collected from random websites using spider technology.

This is more aimed at CV / resumes, but basically they were looking to hit personal homepages with CV / resume info and collate the information into their DB, which would be then searchable by employers.

Perhaps this is a similar system? Or one designed to actively source and index vacancies and job postings from corporate sites?

Scott

[Brett_Tabke]

I threw links to the previous msgs about it in the first msg. This is a two year old bot...

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=YahooSeeker [google.com]