I've only seen them on sites that display contextweb advertising.
Certainly nothing of the sort here. One rarely-visited page got an unexpected flurry of activity culminating in a facebook visit-- but the contextadbot came before most of the other stuff. Interior page, no robots.txt.
incrediBILL
9:21 pm on May 18, 2014 (gmt 0)
Funny, I see them using 198.148.26.* and 198.148.27.* which is:
I dont display any adds on the site it has tried to access.
wilderness
2:54 pm on Sep 1, 2014 (gmt 0)
The following from two different sources/pages:
"PulsePoint helps brands engage the right consumers at scale by fusing the science of programmatic distribution with the art of content marketing."
"Projects will involve processing big data streamed from thousands of ad-servers. The goal is to collect, process and deliver results to consumers (be they internal or external) in the most efficient and reliable way."
Pfui
12:59 am on Sep 3, 2014 (gmt 0)
Misc. FWIW Bits
1.) In January, 2014, PulsePoint hit using Pattern, "a web mining module for Python" --
