Neevabot

[lucy24]

Says it's a search engine.

IP: 100.26.127.abc, 54.161.41.abc, where each “abc” represents one specific number
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Neevabot/1.0; +https://neeva.com/neevabot)
Protocol: HTTP/2
Headers: a few predictable deficits aside from the 54 IP
robots.txt: yes, compliant

You can tell it’s a young healthy robot, because it proceeded directly to HTTP/2.0. Normally this would make it hard to say anything about its redirect behavior, but I happen to have moved a few pages just lately, so a couple of requests did come in for old URLs. It seems to wait a day or two before requesting the new URL.

It hasn't done a full spidering, but requests specific pages in two different directories. Unlike some robots, I can't readily pinpoint where it gets its shopping list.

[dstiles]

Ad-free, private search

Seems ok if you're willing to pay. This clause is a bit worrying, though...

Neeva is a search engine that looks for information on the web as well as personal files like emails and other documents.

Implies they have access to your computer/phone via their app.

[tangor]

Started hitting the first of August. Does NOT respect robots.txt, even when fed 403, but asks only for the same six files a few times a week.

[tangor]

More fun re: Neeva ... spamming my personal email address, thanking me for my interest, links to their search engine ... now i have to activate a mail spam filter as well as 403s via .htaccess! Never heard of them, have no desire to deal with them. But my life has become just a bit more complicated since they appear to have an unending (kidding) supply of ip and email addresses!

Whew!