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pendanticist

3:05 pm on Feb 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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67.67.130.*** - - [03/Feb/2004:16:28:47 -0800] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 1524 "-" "WhatchaBot_(http://www.whatchaseek.com/)"
67.67.130.*** - - [03/Feb/2004:16:28:48 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 20402 "-" "WhatchaBot_(http://www.whatchaseek.com/)"

Some kind of take-off of WatchUseek.com?

bcolflesh

3:10 pm on Feb 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I saw them on the 2nd - did the same thing - robots.txt and index page - haven't been back.

pendanticist

12:52 am on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Not here either. I guess 'this' similar sounding domain name doesn't alarm anyone. <shrug>

pendanticist

12:36 am on Feb 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I got a sticky that suggested this is probably nothing more than a log spamer 'site submitting' by only spaming one single UA string, which I saw as a referral.

Think 'start-up' engine.....

Still gotta wonder though. How come the flap surrounding Google sound-a-likes and not this one? Perhaps because the one they're mimicking wasn't/isn't so big?