www.openfind.com.tw

[sugarkane]

www.openfind.com.tw [openfind.com.tw]

Any info anyone?
I don't recognise the results - is it a spidering engine or directory?

[Woz]

Seems to be a directory as I am seeing recognizable results on my pet searches.

Not sure where they are getting their info from though, can't seem to locate the add-url link.

Anyone out there read chinese??

Onya
Woz

[bill]

Might [url=www.openfind.com.tw/ad_list.html]this[/url] be the Add Link page? The top of the page looks like pricing for banner adds, but the bottom has a submit form. The last character in this "�A�����o" is the same character used in Japanese for the compound that means submit. This link is on the top right of the www.openfind.com.tw [openfind.com.tw] page as well as the bottom navigation links. That's the closest I can come to figuring this one out.

[Woz]

I saw that page too bill but I think it is just advertising. I am assuming the form at the bottom is to send a request for more information about advertising - but then I could be wrong!!??

I'll see what I can do.

Onya
Woz

[eljefe3]

That above mentioned page is the ad rates page. I looked through their source code which is in English (and very long), but didn't see the add URL. Ran the mouse over all thelinks also, but since their URL's are sooo long, I couldn't pin anything down.

[nicebloke]

I just got a vist too.

Openfind data gatherer, Openbot/3.0+([e-mail];+http://www.openfind.com.tw/robot.html

There's some basic info at [openfind.com.tw...]

[paynt]

Openfind.com hit one of my sites 25,928 times yesterday.

[msgraph]

>>>Openfind.com hit one of my sites 25,928 times yesterday.

Yep that's them alright. I had to ban them a few months ago because they wouldn't stop. I think they have one of the most abusive spiders out there. They were generating log files 50-60 MB in size. I didn't even submit to them so I think they just follow link after link on any links they find.

If you have a small site there is nothing to worry about.

[Brett_Tabke]

Their MO:

66.7.131.131
66.7.131.130
66.7.131.132
66.7.131.133
66.7.131.134
66.7.131.129

Openfind data gatherer, Openbot/3.0+([e-mail];+http://www.openfind.com.tw/robot.html)

[littleman]

[sina.com.hk...]

Voted best Chinese website by various authorities, SINA.com is now partnering with Taiwan's leading search engine service provider Openfind to upgrade its powerful and user-friendly search engine for SinaNews and SinaFinance. This new venture follows the recent success SINA.com enjoyed through its partnership with US' largest search engine Alta Vista.

[9238]

1)sina.com.cn is the first portal in China;
kimo.com is the first portal in Taiwan;
sina.com.tw is the third portal in Taiwan

2)Openfind.com.tw is the leading search engine service provider in Taiwan area;
Baidu.com is the the leading search engine service provider in China.

3)openfind had been providing search engine service to sina.com.cn, sina.com.tw, kimo.com and cn.yahoo.com for sometime.

4)But now google is providing search engine service to kimo.com and cn.yahoo.com;
and Baidu.com is providing search engine service to sina.com.cn.

5)BTW, baidu.com is providing search engine service to sina.com.cn, sohu.com, cn.tom.com, hk.tom.cn, 263.com, 21cn.com, chinaren.com,etc.
it's about 70-80% search engine marketing in china.

[Woz]

Wow!, thanks 9238, great information.

Welcome to WmW, I hope you find information that is useful to you.

Onya
Woz

[Olaf]

I�m being spammed now by them. What a nuisance. Been coming in bursts for the past month and has now been going on for 24 hours.

They are retrieving 5-10 pages per minute and have been for the whole day.
66.7.131.148 <snip> Openfind data gatherer, Openbot/3.0+([e-mail];+http://www.openfind.com.tw/robot.html)"

Most of my site is dynamically generated (pedigree searches) and the total ofpossible pages is around 1 million. Which it seems to be adamant in retrieving.

It does not seem to retrieve my robots.txt. I've searched my logs (date back 4 months) and it never retrieved it. (could have an older one, but should have gotten a newer version within that timespan)

It hate to have to resort to banning the ip/domain but it seems I have no other choice.

Olaf

[Woz]

Hi Olaf, welcome to WmW.

>It hate to have to resort to banning the ip/domain but it seems I have no other choice.

Have you tried sending them an email? try [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Please let us know the results.

Onya
Woz

[linux]

I use Killspam.cgi (http://www.all-yours.net/scripts/killspam.htm) on my site. There is an invisable link to the script on my index page. The link's destination is clearly banned in my robots.txt file. Openfind's site states that their spider will obey robots.txt, but according to my Killspam log file it clearly does not. This script replicates pages with bogus e-mail addresses (more than 46,000 per execution!) I have to delete my killspam log file daily as it grows from their hits. The lesson here is be warey of e-mail address lists that you might think of buying!