I've been doing some housecleaning in User-Agent lists, and would like to double-check a few names.
Last Seen in 2013: FairShare (March 2013)
kalooga (KaloogaBot, April 2013)
WebReaper (May 2013)
\.exe\b (i.e. any user-agent with word ending .exe: September 2013)
webcollage (November 2013)
web/snippet (November 2013)
Has anyone set eyes on any of these in the past year? In the specific case of WebReaper I've only ever seen them once-- but their behavior was so egregious that if the utility still exists, I'll continue blocking them.
The string "web/snippet" refers to Google's snippetbot
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110814 Firefox/6.0 Google (+https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/)
If it no longer exists, there's no point in continuing to block it.
Last Seen in 2012: NativeHost (March 2012)
CoverScout (Dec 2012)
Last Seen in 2011: vcbot (July 2011)
Covario (September 2011)
Extreme Picture Finder (October 2011)
unknown: Wikimpress
I don't know what they did to offend me or when they did it, because I can find absolutely no record of the name. I don't generally block unknowns on the basis of
WebmasterWorld threads alone [webmasterworld.com].