Yahoo! crawler...

[pardo]

I noticed srch4.corp.yahoo.com on our website today. Is this one of their new robots to index for their own search engine database?

[Rugles]

No, if I remember correctly the new Yahoo bot is called YahooSeeker.
What you may be seeing is someone searching from the corporate office of yahoo. That is just my guess though.

[2_much]

This is for Yahoo Shopping

[keyplyr]

I agree Rugles, srch4.corp.yahoo.com originates from Yahoo corporate office.

Yahoo shopping crawler UA is:

YahooSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; h*tp://help.yahoo.com/help/us/shop/merchant/)

[mcavic]

Yes, the UA for product search is YahooSeeker/1.0. But it looks like they (1) also run some bots on corporate IP's, and (2) surf sites in connection with product search.

[fiestagirl]

I've been seeing one from:
neptune4.search.corp.yahoo.com using the UA: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0)
and one from srch14.corp.yahoo.com using UA: homes/jignashu/units/bin/saisudhir/unity1.pl/0.1 libwww-perl/5.69

[twilight47]

Do new yahoo bots mean that Ink will be more than a paid for inclusion SE?

[gibEll]

We had about 40k visits over night and early this morning from:
YahooSeeker/1.0 - sh*.rmi.shop.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.126.*).

It's unbelievably rude! It was doing nothing but trying to get images that don't even exist on our server, several a second from several diff. ip's. I got it banned in .htaccess, then 4 hours later it started again - only this time it was:
libwww-perl/5.69 from feed21.shop.corp.yahoo.com (207.126.225.175).

Does anyone know a phone number for these people? It's eating up our bandwidth like crazy.

[Tim]

Gib,
Please stickymail me the relevant info and hopefully we can resolve this for you.
Tim