Ideare

an Italian Inktomi?

[volatilegx]

I've been looking at hits from a spider with the user agent "ideare - SignSite/1.2" and IP 212.123.67.70 and came up with the website [ideare.com...] which looks sort of like an Italian Inktomi that was spun off from EUROSEARCH and is mostly owned by Tiscali, an Italian free internet service provider.

I'm adding them to my list of search engine spiders.

[heini]

More info on Tiscali:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum4/355.htm [webmasterworld.com]

Tiscali uses fast for international searches. Their own search unit, used for spidering and indexing italian sites, is labeled Janas, that's where ideare.com comes in.
Tiscali uses ideare tools/spiders for mp3, images etc searches.

Tiscali has become a major force in western Europe, see here:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum18/323.htm [webmasterworld.com]

[volatilegx]

Thanks heini.

Do you have any IP/User Agent info for Janas?