Is this a bad bot or good bot?
Is this a bad bot or good bot?
Good, it's a search engine (it's the yahoo bot).
Henry The Mirago Robot seems to be visiting my Archives quite a lot
The ask jeeves bot has been on my forum for over 3+1/2 hours solid!
think of a good signature later
Do bots suck up a lot a bandwidth?
They can, yes. If you're worried about their doing so, you can use a robots.txt file.Originally Posted by Andrew111888
And it's actually the Inktomi bot, not the Yahoo bot.
It's still there... 4hours later
think of a good signature later
It was on my site for two days. And I was pretty darn calm the whole time.
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It's a useless bot. AFAIK no one actually uses their index.
Yahoo own them, but they are still using Google.
Raz - KMC Forums
They actually power HotBot (they're the main provider) and MSN.
Besides, I bet we'll see Yahoo do something with them, though I doubt they'll last more than another year with MSN (if that long).
inktomisearch.com has been on my site nearly 48 hours now .... I wasn't sure what they were until I came here .. cause I teid to type inktomisearch.com and got no page.
Google normally has 5-40 bots at my site 24/7 and its been like this for two months.
Ya get used to it - thought its kind of funny looking at 150 guests at times
Their webpage is www.inktomi.com
Actually, I find all bots to be mildly troublesome. My members get rather frustrated when they view "Who's Online" and see so many guests viewing pages that they don't have access to or trying to perform Moderating Duties or trying to Edit other members posts or any number of things that normal guests are restricted from doing. I know they're not actually doing anything, except searching links on our pages, but a few members are convinced that guests are stealing our custom made smilies.
We're not listed on search engines and I've eliminated all Meta tags, but still we get bots roaming our pages for hours upon days. What can we do to eliminate them?
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