Wonder what AV are testing

(is MC the new, hip AV)

[vis]

Popped in over the weekend.

Scooter-test-scooter_Mc_conn_45

ip: 209.73.164.42

resolves to NS1.altavista.com

just grabbed the one page (rather obscure- and not recently submitted) and robots text.

[Steph]

i see a lot of the scooter-tv, scooter-scooter, scooter-test-scooter, ... (total : 34 differents for instant) on my site since the beginning of the next week.
I don't know why...

[Marcia]

On new sites, just recently added, I've seen Scooter one month, then Mercator the following time - no TV or others. On the sites that have been in for a while I've been seeing all those TV spiders.

[Brett_Tabke]

Seen, many, many variations on scooter domains the last month - all over the map. A little bird says they are experimenting with outsourcing spidering. hmmm. Sounds like Inktomi in the works to me...

[vis]

...but if only they didn't give them such enticing names.

Another new one today Mercator-Scrub-1.1

Wonder what its scrubbing for?

ip 212.187.226.122-124 resolves to aveurope

grabbed robots and a couple of pages

Maybe the Dutch are having a bit of fun before they all have to move to the UK or Germany?