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Crawler, Spider, and User Agent ID


Forum to identify search engine spiders and user agents

 
Thread SubjectMessagesStarted byLast Message
  MSIE 7/8 on Windows 98
New browsers on old machines.
3 dstiles 10:45 pm Jan 24, 2010
  Cuil quietly fixes Twiceler crawler
To handle multi-user-agent policies in robots.txt
3 jdMorgan 8:38 pm Jan 23, 2010
  .watson.ibm.com --
Crawler now cloaked?
3 Pfui 4:16 am Jan 23, 2010
  Seznam
Czech bot
4 dstiles 6:27 pm Jan 21, 2010
  gamma.ucsd.edu tests multiple bad bots
Nmap Scripting Engine, favicon Internet survey research
4 Pfui 5:53 am Jan 21, 2010
  What is KKman (bad bot?)
Should it be banned?
3 Merganser 2:39 am Jan 21, 2010
  If You're Gonna Spoof . At Least Get It Right
A Bit of Humor From the Logs
2 TheMadScientist 10:09 pm Jan 19, 2010
  Dow Jones Searchbot
9 dstiles 10:08 pm Jan 18, 2010
  Spying spiders - do you know (m)any of them
5 smallcompany 7:21 pm Jan 17, 2010
  php-openid/2.1.1 (php/hphp) curl/7.19.4
Something new from Facebook comes...
2 Pfui 5:55 pm Jan 17, 2010
  Yahoo's cloaked crawler(s)
crawler*.dls.srch.kr3.yahoo.com
3 Pfui 11:30 pm Jan 16, 2010
  Yahoo blank UA
Is it really mobiles?
6 dstiles 3:42 am Jan 16, 2010
  Is "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" legit?
11 KenB 2:39 am Jan 12, 2010
  Bad bot? It Visits only index 5-12 times per day
122.108.33.nnn
5 TrailBum 12:00 am Jan 12, 2010
  Vortex
(formerly Scout.Vortex?)
2 Pfui 7:25 pm Jan 11, 2010
  CligooRobot/1.0
5 keyplyr 6:57 pm Jan 11, 2010
  ParchedAnalysisAgent
(distributed HTTP access/referer spammer)
5 Pfui 10:14 pm Jan 7, 2010
  cipherkey.net linked to a wide variety of bad bots
DFAgent/DivineFlowersExplorer, FinancialAnalysisAgent, LegalX Deep Analyzer
4 Pfui 10:13 pm Jan 7, 2010
  Diigo caching pages in violation of meta tags & cloaking bot
4 KenB 6:18 pm Jan 7, 2010
  MJ12bot v1.3.0 Implements Ground Breaking Validation Capability
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99 System 11:49 pm Jan 3, 2010
  Orgbybot/OrgbyBot v1.2
7 GaryK 6:15 am Jan 1, 2010
  Linguee Bot
19 Pfui 6:58 pm Dec 31, 2009
  aiHitBot
4 Pfui 3:47 am Dec 30, 2009
  Updating bot ban list & cleaning out obsolete entries
11 KenB 8:15 pm Dec 29, 2009
  Twiceler/cuil.com craziness (FWIW)
7 Pfui 7:05 am Dec 29, 2009