A flurry of New bots (for me)

over the past few days

[wilderness]

parallelContextFocusCrawler1.1parallelContextFocusCrawler1.1, 131.114.2.176, from Italy

Cartographer 1.4, 207.202.132.64
I looked at the website and this looks like an older version. The new beta is 2.01

a new Links SQL user, 212.100.224.219

obot,213.252.152.11, from Germany

PingALink Monitoring Services 1.0, 162.83.195.247
discussed here previously

Today a was able to find a url for the
"ScoutAbout" bot 138.15.164.9 which has been visiting my sites for some time
[researchrepublic.com...]

[littleman]

>parallelContextFocusCrawler1.1parallelContextFocusCrawler1.1, 131.114.2.176, from Italy
That's the most extreme use of UA branding I've ever seen.

[wilderness]

<snip>That's the most extreme use of UA branding I've ever seen.>

Perhaps the bot just stutters ;-)

They only hit the robots.text and two pages. One of which I have a 301 set up for.
Both pages were for racetracks.

There has been some extensive press this past year covering the Standardbred racing in Italy which might warrant some new searches.

The above I can understand.
What I fail to comprehend is the visitors I get from Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China where as far as I know Standardbred racing and horses are nonexistent.

[wilderness]

208.131.25.168
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; www.galaxy.com; URL of site being visited)"

Looked at the web page.
Had the bot as Logika.
Looks new to me.

[volatilegx]

208.131.25.168 looks like a new IP for logika.net, which runs the search engine galaxy.com.

By the way I really like the galaxy.com SE. Although when I visited it, I got a pop-up ad, my sites were ranked #1 for my best keyword phrases. Also it seemed very fast.