Anyone familiar with Searchhippo.com?

Fluffy the Spider!??

[Travoli]

Got hit by this yesterday:

Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; Fluffy the spider; http://www.searchhippo.com/; [e-mail])

"Fluffy the spider" LOL, It was nice to see a little creativity out there.

[skirril]

I get their robot in my logs, never saw a referral from them so far though.

Now I went to check, and lo, I know why.

for a certain search term i am number 35 (of 38 listed)

[skirril]

A problem with them: They want a link back to them from our site, which I odnt like (it's a form of uncontrolled content).

Since they seem to be minor at best, I don't optimise for them.

[Travoli]

Looks as though hippo only has one thing going for them..the SE Spider name.

[littleman]

It came in from 208.148.122.28 today, which is a couple of IPs up from their website.

[rcjordan]

I get a referral once every 3 or 4 months, whether I need it or not.