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frankm
Jun 11th 2005, 3:32 pm
Look what I found in my logfiles:
the IP resolves to a china ip-block..
Why would yahoo be spidering from China? or am I just posting something you guys already knew :-)

202.165.98.141 - - [12/Jun/2005:00:29:39 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 46962 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"
digitalpoint
Jun 11th 2005, 3:34 pm
Because they can... :)

The IP is definitely owned by Yahoo though, so it's not someone spoofing...

http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl?searchtext=202.165.98.141
frankm
Jun 11th 2005, 3:40 pm
Because they can... :)


next NOC : International Space Station?
digitalpoint
Jun 11th 2005, 3:45 pm
Yahoo doesn't serve just the US/Europe you know. :)

http://cn.yahoo.com/
frankm
Jun 11th 2005, 3:47 pm
yeah, but my sites are hosted in LA ... and are not in Chinese
digitalpoint
Jun 11th 2005, 3:54 pm
How are they going to know what language it is in without spidering it? :)
frankm
Jun 11th 2005, 4:35 pm
ok. I'll stop complaining about spiders from china: I just had my first ever yahoo!china
ref-url: http://cn.websearch.yahoo.com/search/web_cn?stype=&p=%22We+Belong+Together%22+Richie+Valens&scch=on&ei=gb

crazy enough, visitors address is 67.118.__.__ which is registered to Pac Bell Internet Services (USA!).

So to get more US visitors, I have to be spidered by a chinese search engine, where Chinese-Americans (is that a word?) search for totally non Chinese stuff.. ok.. got it..

-- kill this thread please :-)