Bigsearch.ca

new Canadian search engine currently Beta

[Mokita]

Full UA:
Bigsearch.ca/Nutch-0.9-dev (Bigsearch.ca Internet Spider; [bigsearch.ca...] [e-mail])

Only asked for robots.txt, which is fortunate, as I have all Nutch bots barred. ;)

From their About Us: "Bigsearch.ca is a search engine seeded from the dmoz.org directory. Bigsearch.ca uses open source technologies to create an open and fair index."

[volatilegx]

Saw it coming from 72.0.207.162

[Mokita]

The bot has visited one of our sites four times (so far) in December, always from 72.0.207.162. Each time it has asked for robots.txt and default page, but it always gets a 403 for the default page as I have Nutch agents barred.

I have now tried disallowing it in robots.txt using "Bigsearch.ca" - this is just a wild guess, as their web site gives no clue if it obeys robots.txt or what User Agent might be required. I'll see what happens if they return.