BuzzRankingBot

What's the buzz?

[GaryK]

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BuzzRankingBot/1.0; [buzzrankingbot.com...]
213.251.187.124
ns21996.ovh.net

No robots.txt. Took disallowed files. Anyone heard any buzz on this BuzzRankingBot?

[Mokita]

Only the info on the page quoted in the UA. They claim to honour robots.txt.

But a <link snipped>blog I found mentioning it has this to say:

However I couldn't find any other references to this bot anywhere on the web. Based on domain registration information, my best guess is that Matthieu Aubry, the creator of phpMyVisites, is likely building on his analytics knowledge to create a new service.

[edited by: volatilegx at 2:44 pm (utc) on Dec. 26, 2006]
[edit reason] no blog links, please. [/edit]

[GaryK]

Thanks Mokita. I followed a new comment on that page and, if it's true, it seems you're right. Someone named Otto claims he and Matthieu are collaborating on BuzzRanking. The site is in French and FoxLingo did a fairly decent job of translating it for me. I'll post the English here, with links removed. Let me know if you want the actual URL.

I open my blog Chauffeur of Buzz on a project which particularly holds me with heart.

Matthieu ([link removed]) and me dé currently let us veloppons an application which will stir up Web 2.0.

Name of the project: BuzzRanking
URL: [buzzranking.COM...]
Go back to exit: launching of the version beta in January 2007.
Objectives: to identify and quantify Buzz in the blogosphère.

Headings of BuzzRanking:

1 - BuzzRanking will propose a classification of the words more buzzé S of the day, the week and the month.
2 - BuzzRanking will classify the blogs according to their ré activité and relevance vis-a-vis the buzz of the blogosphère.
3 - BuzzRanking é classifications of the sites more cité will ditera; S according to the number of bonds hypertexts obtained on the blogosphère.

The appointment is taken in January 2007 on BuzzRanking.

NB: The term of buzz is enough ré hundred. It dé sign the noise around a person or of a company, who increases her notorié té (cf. [link removed]).

[Mokita]

Thanks Gary - I found the URL by going back to the link I posted.

Given that they claim the Buzz bot honours robots.txt, it might be valuable to contact them with details of your experience with its violations.

... FoxLingo did a fairly decent job of translating it for me.

FWIW, I used Google Translate and it did a better job than what you posted.

[GaryK]

Leosghost sent me a sticky. Since he lives in France he's gonna provide an even better translation of the French. I'll give Google a try. Normally they don't do such a good job so I use WorldLingo. :)

Oops, forgot to mention I'll ask him to contact Otto about the robots.txt thing.

BTW, you're right. I had FoxLingo use Google and it did a better job with the translation.

[edited by: GaryK at 7:15 am (utc) on Dec. 26, 2006]

[matthieu]

Hello,

I'm Matthieu from buzzranking :-)

Please give me details on how the bot didn't follow the robots.txt? Because we did a lot of tests to ensure that it was respected?

Thank you.

[GaryK]

Because we did a lot of tests to ensure that it was respected

Hello Matthieu. The bot needs to read robots.txt before it can respect it. It didn't even ask for robots.txt when it crawled my site.

[matthieu]

Umh, did you check your logs when the bot hit your website for the first time?
The bot normally checks the presence of the robots.txt before even fetch the homepage.

What is your website?

[GaryK]

My log file analysis in terms of looking for new user agents is automated. If, while looking through my logs, a user agent is encountered that I've never seen before it's written to a report along with the appropriate log extracts, a WHOIS, and any other user agents in my database that have been seen from the IP Address the user agent is using.

One of the first things I do when manually reviewing the completed report is take note of whether each user agent is a bot and if so did it request and respect robots.txt.

If it didn't then I add it to the list of user agents I post about in this forum every Sunday.

I don't recall which of my sites was hit by your bot so I can't give you that info. Sorry.