New spider or what?

semanticdiscovery.com is the site but....

[coconubuck]

Hello everyone. My site was inspected by this:

semanticdiscovery/0.2(http://www.semanticdiscovery.com/sd/robot.html)

I have no clue what this one is, even after going to the site.

Can you tell that I'm new? :)

Any ideas on this?

[jimbeetle]

Hi coconubuck,

Welcome to WW.

New, old, somewhere in between, when it comes to the gobbledygook on semanticdiscovery it doesn't matter. As soon as I saw that a couple of months ago it was blocked in my robots.txt. Have no idea what they do, but don't think it's for me. (And I get very suspicious of "companies" that have products and services to sell and don't quite tell you what they are.)

Can anybody out there explain what these folks are offering?

Jim

[TheWebographer]

"Semantic Discovery provides software and services that can enable your company to engage mission critical information and taxonomies to expand your customer base, increase your product offerings, and generate new revenues."

HeHe, sounds like they are frequenters of the Dack Bull#$%@ Generator:

[dack.com...]

[GaryK]

At least this one obeys robots.txt just like the website stated it would. At least that's been my experience with it.

What I can't understand is how this company, and others that employ the same gobbledygook expects anyone to patronize it if reasonably smart people like us can't figure out what they do.

[coconubuck]

It seems to me that I should just stay away from it for now. I dont really see much good that would come out of using them if no one knows what they do...

Thanks for the info!

[coconubuck]

Are there alot of spiders that are like this? I would like to know what is looking at my sites if possible. Semanticdiscovery.com sounds like it isnt on the up and up...

[wilderness]

There was a press release just the other day which stated that Google bought Semantics.
Read it the IAR Newsletter.

[carfac]

Don:

Are those the same companies?

I blocked this one, just because I dop not like all that double-talk that is supposed to make me fee stupid. I have maximized the collaborative supply-chains within my matrix of cross-platform initiatives and technologies, and this one made the ban list...

dave

[jdMorgan]

Background [webmasterworld.com] thread on semanticdiscovery.com.

I'm glad to see evidence of the URL we asked them to add to the user-agent string, anyway.

Jim

[wilderness]

Google/ Find What/ Semantics

http ://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/may2003/pi2003051_7765_pi006.htm

BTW, I still have them denied. Not Google. Semantics.

[DarrylParker]

I looked at their home page, and it's PR 0. The white bar of death. Look like they dynamically leveraged the taxographic distributed matrixes of their own site right out of the Google index....

Darryl.

[dwilson]

Google just bought [appliedsemantics.com...] which does not appear to be related to [semanticdiscovery.com...]

[wilderness]

thanks dwilson for the correction of my quote.