sproose/0.1-alpha

[bobothecat]

38.100.225.7 - - [03/Mar/2006:08:24:10 -0700] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 4695 "-" "sproose/0.1-alpha (sproose crawler; [/bot.html;...] [e-mail])"

from their site:

Sproose is currently developing its Knowledge Rank™ technology for search personalization and social networking.

There doesn't seem to be any search capibility at this time... will ban until there's actually something to see.

[keyplyr]

No sooner had I read this thread then it appeared from: 38.100.225.8

It did request robots.txt then took an obscure page. Must be following links from websites, not indexes.

[Staffa]

Also from 38.100.225.4 - took robots.txt and index page.

Came back twice from 38.100.225.7 requesting robots.txt and so far obeying it (disallow all)

Banned until they can show a useful use, to us, for their crawling.

[Sproose]

Hello,

I just thought I'd drop a line so you guys know there's a real person behind this bot. :) We are still in the development stages, and won't have a publicly searchable product until we get our index populated with enough content.

If there are any questions or concerns abour our bot I'd be happy to address them. As noted, we do obey robots.txt - as well as meta tags as described at [robotstxt.org...]

Thanks,
Gus

[volatilegx]

Thanks for stopping by, Sproose, and welcome to WebmasterWorld :)

Good luck on your project.

[Pfui]

Busy -- and compliant (hooray!) -- critter that Sproose...

38.100.225.8 - - [02/Mar/2006:03:23:33 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 7134 "-"
"sproose/0.1-alpha (sproose crawler; [sproose.com...] [e-mail])"
38.100.225.6 - - [03/Mar/2006:06:45:34 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 7134 "-"
"sproose/0.1-alpha (sproose crawler; [sproose.com...] [e-mail])"
38.100.225.7 - - [04/Mar/2006:01:01:54 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 7134 "-"
"sproose/0.1-alpha (sproose crawler; [sproose.com...] [e-mail])"
38.100.225.5 - - [04/Mar/2006:05:13:51 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 7134 "-"
"sproose/0.1-alpha (sproose crawler; [sproose.com...] [e-mail])"
38.100.225.3 - - [04/Mar/2006:05:19:40 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 7134 "-"
"sproose/0.1-alpha (sproose crawler; [sproose.com...] [e-mail])"
38.100.225.6 - - [05/Mar/2006:20:45:10 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 7134 "-"
"sproose/0.1-alpha (sproose crawler; [sproose.com...] [e-mail])"
38.100.225.3 - - [08/Mar/2006:06:28:21 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 7134 "-"
"sproose/0.1-alpha (sproose crawler; [sproose.com...] [e-mail])"
38.100.225.8 - - [09/Mar/2006:18:59:27 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 7134 "-"
"sproose/0.1-alpha (sproose crawler; [sproose.com...] [e-mail])"

No sign of it since. FWIW.