Brief study on how search engines hit the robots.txt during a short period of time.
During April 1st until May 26th (+ few hours from May 27th) period i ran a test over one of my website's robots.txt file, counting all the external hits. Before we go any further you must take the following data into account:
5 years 51 weeks ago
Find out what links can harm your rankings, and how to use robots.txt
The problem of taming search engines such as Googlebot, Slurp, MSNbot, Teoma, Gigabot and so on appears frequently when you have a large and dynamic site. There are some sections that can have approximately the same content, like the situation when...
6 years 8 weeks ago
krugle Links – Save and View Past Searches krugle links allow you to bookmark your search results and add a label. You can then reference your search results later or share your findings with others. krugle Codespaces – Explore...
6 years 27 weeks ago
IAC Search & Media (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.) was founded in 1996 in Berkeley, California by David Warthen, CTO and veteran software developer, and Garrett Gruener, venture capitalist at Alta Partners and founder of Virtual Microsystems....
6 years 40 weeks ago
ConveraCrawler is an experimental web crawler under development since April 2004. ConveraCrawler is owned and operated by Convera Corporation as part of an effort to develop a state-of-the-art searchable Web index.
6 years 43 weeks ago
Exalead is the company that produced Exabot and it was founded by François Bourdoncle, a pioneer of the search engine software market, which is also the president and chief executive officer of Exalead.
6 years 43 weeks ago
On June 14th Krugle - find code, find answers -(www.krugle.com) went live after a period of beta-testing. During this period they've received over 4700 pieces of feedback.
6 years 44 weeks ago
About the project The project started as my interest for database mining growed. I was always troubled about how Google, Yahoo and other major search engines gather and show the results for a certain query. Every database developer knows that...
6 years 44 weeks ago
Search engines, web crawlers and user-agents
I've created a list with active web crawlers, web query/crawl tools, captured on a web site of mine. I've started the logging a few months ago, and the results are pretty amazing, seems like a lot of companies and institutes are making web research...
7 years 5 weeks ago