searchers.co.uk crawling

from 213.122.174.x

[Hobbs]

Hit robots.txt first, their site carries no robot exclusion page.

Came from: 213.122.174.x

Came as: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1

[incrediBILL]

I'm curious what evidence you have that links that IP to searchers.co.uk?

I was hit by the same IP and it was stopped automatically so I did a quick look for my tracking codes on their site and it appears that they are scraping Live results as it has valid msnbot crawl data embedded in their results.

[Hobbs]

Ripe identifies the IP as Reach Global Ltd
reach-global.co.uk redirects to rgg.co.uk
Where under 'Companies' you'll find searchers.co.uk listed

It was a logical deduction that searchers.co.uk is what crawls out of that portfolio.

[incrediBILL]

It was a logical deduction but I did a few searches and the result set appears to be MSN, or some meta mashup with MSN being the core.

[jetboy]

Just had searchers.co.uk on the phone, who claim to run their own index. They also claim to be running a large TV campaign.

Seems like the old Lycos UK/Touch setup though; buying keywords for fixed placement on a search engine that never sends any traffic.

Reach Global are based in Accrington, which I believe is the same part of the world as Touch ...

[Pfui]

I redirect the UA because it's circa June, 2003, and the likelihood of a real person actually using it is slim at best. The only okay file is robots.txt; nothing else unless a human touches base first.