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Overture harvesting emails?

         

kapow

5:37 pm on Oct 26, 2001 (gmt 0)

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I see Overture (goto) in my weblogs for many websites. They are obviously crawling the web, no doubt to harvest email addresses. I don't want them harvesting my clients email address to spam them / take my clients away.

Anyone else have this concern? / a solution?

....overture.com/d/search/p/netscape/;$sessionid$BQSW0SQACPJA5QFIEONQPUQ

WebGuerrilla

5:50 pm on Oct 26, 2001 (gmt 0)

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I think what you are seeing is just someone who did a search at Overture and then visited your site. Otherwise, they're assigning a seesion id to their spider?

That doesn't make much sense.

kapow

11:58 am on Oct 29, 2001 (gmt 0)

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None of my sites are registered with Overture. I am certainly not paying for their services (although I probably will soon). How can any of my sites appear in Overture?

Brett_Tabke

12:03 pm on Oct 29, 2001 (gmt 0)

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When a they don't have enough paid listings, then Inktomi is used to fill out the results.

kapow

12:29 pm on Oct 29, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Thankyou
That makes sense