Fatbot

[keyplyr]

UA: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FatBot 2.0; http://www.thefind.com/crawler)
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
Robots.txt: Yes
Host: facebook.com
73.252.64.0 - 173.252.127.255
173.252.64.0/18

This UA has been around for several years, mentioned here at WW in several forums, often associated with questionable behavior.

The URL in the UA string is invalid, possibly just an oversight. However the several listings in the SERP are also invalid. It seems the only accessible web presence is facebook.com/thefind. This may explain why the IP address above belongs to FB.

[lucy24]

possibly just an oversight

Free lookup's current screenshot (thumbnail, but you can make it out) says "We're moving to facebook!" The earlier screenshots--going back several years--didn't. Maybe once they recover from the excitement of the exclamation mark, they'll remember to update their UA. But then again, perfectly respectable search engines have been known to go months or longer before noticing outdated parts of their UA.

:: noting with interest that they also appear to be their own DNS, a detail more often associated with organizations that control thousands of domains, not seventeen* ::


* I've closed the window, but I know there was a 17 in there somewhere.

[keyplyr]

"We're moving to facebook!"

Besides the comma, the exclamation mark is probably the most overused punctuation by publishers of any media.

Another common pretention is on About Us pages that begin with "We at... " when everyone knows it's just some guy in his boxer shorts sitting on the couch with a lap-top.