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"Become" Search Engine

Discussion in 'All Other Search Engines' started by schlottke, Jan 10, 2005.

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    I've been seeing a bot called "Become" spidering recently and havent heard mention of it around- whats the news on this?

    http://www.become.com/search?command=home

    http://www.become.com/webmasters.html

    Ironically, it seems they are located very close to Google..

    Google Inc.
    1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
    Mountain View CA 94043
    phone: (650) 623-4000
    fax: (650) 618-1499

    Become, Inc.
    1300 Crittenden Lane,
    Suite 403
    Mountain View , CA 94043
    650-694-7900 Phone
    650-694-6300 Fax

    Only about 2 blocks apart.
     
    schlottke, Jan 10, 2005 IP
  2. chachi

    chachi The other Jason

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    They have been crawling most of our sites like mad over the past few weeks. Next time I am down there I will take a drive by. ;)
     
    chachi, Jan 10, 2005 IP
  3. schlottke

    schlottke Peon

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    President is Michael Yang- the guy who founded mysimon.com- wonder if he'll succeed at all with this one.
     
    schlottke, Jan 11, 2005 IP
  4. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    The domain is pretty crap if you ask me. Become dot com just doesn't sound right.
     
    T0PS3O, Jan 11, 2005 IP
  5. nfzgrld

    nfzgrld Peon

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    I was just coming in to the forums to ask the same thing. It's been all over my shopping site for days now. I read the blurb thay have on their about page, but it doesn't really tell me anything. I wonder what this "new technology" is? I think the real question is, become what? :D
     
    nfzgrld, Jan 11, 2005 IP
  6. protesto

    protesto Peon

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    Become.com Beta is only available to invited guests. Does anyone can invite us?
     
    protesto, Jan 12, 2005 IP
  7. JasonDowdell

    JasonDowdell Guest

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    I just put up an interview with Michael Yang on my blog. They're having the prelaunch party Feb 10, 2005 and I'll be blogging the event. Right now he's saying they've got a better algo in that it doesn't rely on backlinks the way Google's PageRank algo does but when I get more details on the specifics I'll post. Hope this helps.
     
    JasonDowdell, Jan 24, 2005 IP
  8. nfzgrld

    nfzgrld Peon

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    I look forward to hearing about it Jason. Since I run a shopping site I'm very interested in what will "become" of it when the new engine goes online. Meanwhile, I noticed something interesting today. The become bot has been all over my site the past couple of days. Today, I'm recording about 25 uniques that are all the become spider. It looks like each one of the different IPs is hitting me 100's of times. Gbot has hit me 350 times as of just a minute ago, and its only about 8% of the total hits from spiders today! Another one or two goes to inktomi. All the rest is become. Interesting.
     
    nfzgrld, Jan 24, 2005 IP
  9. JasonDowdell

    JasonDowdell Guest

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    Per the post on my blog, they're going to go live with 2.2 billion unique pages when they launch next month so it's not surprising at all. Especially since your site is shopping related. Once their spider crawls and deems a site is indeed a shopping site, it aggressively crawls that site to ensure it has the most recent version of all it's pages. They know what they're doing but it's always fun to get a real live example to prove that :)
     
    JasonDowdell, Jan 24, 2005 IP
  10. justicewhite

    justicewhite Well-Known Member

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    How can I identify the BecomeBot in my logs?
     
    justicewhite, Jan 26, 2005 IP
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    bigslowrock Peon

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    bigslowrock, Jan 26, 2005 IP
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    Googles76 Peon

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    Yep, was comming here to ask the same thing. Become bot is crawling through every single product I have in my store. There are thousands, good luck become bot!
     
    Googles76, Jan 30, 2005 IP
  13. SportsOutlaw

    SportsOutlaw Active Member

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    anybody have any beta invitations? I would like to get into this thing just to check it out before the upcoming launch.
     
    SportsOutlaw, Feb 5, 2005 IP
  14. Scott

    Scott Peon

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    Ditto ^^^^^^
     
    Scott, Feb 5, 2005 IP
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    Refrozen Peon

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    Grandparentted ditto'ed.
     
    Refrozen, Feb 5, 2005 IP