searchbot

[keyplyr]

Host: Time Warner Cable
45.48.0.0 - 45.51.255.255
45.48.0.0/14

"GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 926 "http://www.dmoz.org/" "Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+searchbot/2.1;++search-engine-crawler)"

[lucy24]

I thought that sounded awfully familiar, but red herring. The string "searchbot", case sensitive, is also part of the UA

SafeDNSBot (https://www.safedns.com/searchbot)

as discussed last October [webmasterworld.com]. I've seen the latter a few times lately, but it seems to obey robots.txt so I'm not bothered.