Any Body?

What is this dpcatalog1.go2net.com

[drbill]

Hey LM.

Any ideas? Just grabbed the root page.. 9 different domains and both new submits.
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tracert 63.251.4.43
Tracing route to dpcatalog1.go2net.com [63.251.4.43]
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Spider or not?

[Air]

It's looking lika yes -

T-H-U-N-D-E-R-S-T-O-N-E

oh well, I am sure better ones will come along ;)

[mivox]

I am very interested to see what Thunderstone's future plans are... they have a very interesting combo directory/index system: they spider, they will (eventually) place your site in the category their software finds most appropriate, but you can give them category and description suggestions for your listing, and they will re-place your category accordingly.

Considering the number of 'come-from-nowhere' indexes and directories the web's seen, I plan on keeping track of this one.

[Brett_Tabke]

Timely. I am in the middle of updating a search engine history file and I'm trying to figure out what all Go2net owns.

Metacrawler, Dogpile, Infospace, Others?

I don't think Thunderstone is owned by go2net?

[mivox]

From Thunderstone's 'about us' page:

"Thunderstone is an independent R&D company that has been providing high-performance state-of-the-art solutions to intelligent information retrieval and management problems for over 19 years. Our flagship product, Texis, is the most comprehensive text retrieval and publishing software available. In one package Texis provides every full-text, SQL, multimedia management, and dynamic publishing operation needed for an enterprise search application."

Doesn't sound like anyone owns them... strange, isn't it? ;)

[Brett_Tabke]

What was the Agent name DrBill?

[Air]

Here's the relevant info:

From logfiles:

www.[edited].com 63.251.4.43 [20/Jan/2001:19:38:16 -0500] "/robots.txt" 404 - "-" "Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; T-H-U-N-D-E-R-S-T-O-N-E)"

Then notice in the link below dogpile is using texis which is the technology described on the thunderstone site.

[dpcatalog.dogpile.com...]

So I guess texis comes with a spider and the dogpile catalog is using it, or t-stone is spidering for them.

[Brett_Tabke]

That is wild.

[mivox]

I've seen 'texis' in other search sites' file paths... So I'd say Thunderstone is licensing out their indexing/search technology like Inktomi does. Don't know if they're running the spiders for their slients or not though.

But Thunderstone itself does maintain their own index/search site. You *can't submit your site to it*... They spider, and if they happen to find you (and like you), you're in. Their description also says they're concentrating on 'quality not quantity' with the material they index, and they seem to rely almost entirely ont heir spiders and software to manage it. Don't know how they managed to build a spider they could trust to judge 'quality'...

[blue2]

Speaking of Thunderstone, I have been trying to figure out how they find sites to spider.

I have seen them hit many brand new sites that have no other sites linking to them... And, it began immediately after I submitted to several other engines.

Any ideas? Can anyone see any patterns in their logs?