Slurp's gone wacko

And is very confused

[andyll]

Since about December this is what has happened:

December:
- All pages except for homepage dropped.
- Slurp still crawls 1000s of pages.

Early January:
- 50-200 old (not updated) pages float in and out of index
- Slurp crawls 20-30 pages that are very old (still exist but are no longer linked to any other pages.)

Late January:
- Homepage only in index.
- No visits from Slurp

Today:
- Homepage only.
- Slurp crawling pages that have never existed
- Slurp crawling pages that do exist with a directory structure that never existed.

i.e.

www.example.com/abn.htm
(page the from Australian Bamboo Network?... never existed on my site)

www.example.com/aelectshop/MYPAGE/aepage.htm

The MYPAGE does exist on my site but not as a directory. It should be MYPAGE.ASP. The directories 'aelectshop' & 'aepage.htm' do not exist on my site.

A couple of of the pages/directories requested are gibberish (or foreign?): nrk_sogn_og_fjordane.htm & /drfujisawa_tac/

About 30-40 pages request like this. (No existing pages were requested)

Very strange.

Andy

[abates]

Yup, I've been getting the same garbled hits, with paths constructed seemingly at random. Slurp does this occasionally. Must be some really weird bug in the bot...