Re: UKNM: spiders / page impressions

[Alex Bainbridge]

>

> Yesterday I found Scooter (AltaVista's spider) being identified as a

> Mozilla Browser. If I hadn't done an RDNS lookup on it because of some

> strange browsing patterns and found its IP address coming from AV.com we

> would never have known. Infact is it  possible that unknown Spiders could

> account for up to a 1/4 of the traffic on some sites.


This is probably not the normal spider (Scooter) - but the extra one that

comes around every so often


The aim is to defeat search engine page cloaking mechanisms.


Are you also sure that it was not someone from the AV staff? Or someone

using the altavista ISP?


All the altavista staff IP addresses are listed on the page linked from


http://www.searchengineworld.com/spiders/ip_addresses/altavista.htm


regards


alex

http://www.first48.com


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