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I spotted Gigablast crawling - Haven't seen it for a while

         

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6:46 pm on Dec 10, 2010 (gmt 0)

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The Green Search Engine
[gigablast.com]
Gigablast is
the leading clean-energy search engine. 90% of its power usage comes from wind energy.


I hadn't seen Gigablast in the logs for a while, and some of you may have spotted it more recently, so forgive me if it's old news.

Pfui

1:22 am on Dec 11, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Gigabot hits one of my sites about once a week using different Hosts. For example:

smtp.gigablast.com
Gigabot/3.0 (http://www.gigablast.com/spider.html)
robots.txt? Yes

epg.gigablast.com
Gigabot/3.0 (http://www.gigablast.com/spider.html)
robots.txt? Yes

I'm happy to say it's well-behaved and has been for a year-plus! Thus I've not reported it here.

FWIW, prior Hosts/IPs/versions include:

63.225.19.2nn
Gigabot/1.0
robots.txt? Yes

70-90-210-2nn-albuquerque.hfc.comcastbusiness.net
Gigabot/1.0
robots.txt? Yes

dstiles

10:14 pm on Dec 11, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I get quite a few hits from gigabot across sites on my server but they all come from a single IP - 67.16.94.2. I set the IP up in April and I haven't seen anything on other IPs.

As pfui says, seems like a good-mannered bot. :)

This is UK if it makes a difference.

blend27

12:00 pm on Dec 12, 2010 (gmt 0)

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67.16.94.2(smtp.gigablast.com) first seen in Feb this year. Very polite Bot. I didnt see any traffic from the Green Engine, so dropped it in Robots.txt which it obeys by the book.