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New Yahoo! bot?

Discussion in 'Yahoo' started by chachi, Aug 2, 2005.

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    Anyone seen this thing? I just saw it peep one of our WordPress sites:

    YahooSeeker-Testing/v3.9 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://search.yahoo.com/)
     
    chachi, Aug 2, 2005 IP
  2. hulkster

    hulkster Peon

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    Saw one visit from him last week on www.komar.org ... no idea why a "shop/merchent" bot would be interested in my site.


    68.142.230.200 - - [25/Jul/2005:16:40:14 -0600] "GET /cgi-bin/xmas_webcam HTTP/1.0" 200 26733 "-" "YahooSeeker/1.2 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; yahooseeker at yahoo-inc dot com ; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/shop/merchant/)"

    $ nslookup 68.142.230.200

    200.230.142.68.in-addr.arpa name = crw23.vc.search.re2.yahoo.com.
     
    hulkster, Aug 2, 2005 IP
  3. chachi

    chachi The other Jason

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    Could have been looking for a deal on a used blow up Hulk ? :)
     
    chachi, Aug 3, 2005 IP
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    hulkster Peon

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    I actually get periodic Emails from people about if this is for sale - I direct 'em to eBay as they show up there occasionally. The funniest one was when someone called on the phone and got my wife. They were polite about it and explained how they had seen the Hulk page and wanted to buy him - my wife said that "he's not for sale since he's part of the family" ;-)
     
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  5. forkqueue

    forkqueue Guest

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    I've been getting a load of hits from this bot too, in fact I have a new site where the Yahoo crawls are *only* from this bot, not the normal Yahoo bot!
     
    forkqueue, Aug 3, 2005 IP
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    web-rover Peon

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    yeah i had a few hits from that one last week.
     
    web-rover, Aug 3, 2005 IP
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    otc_cmnn Peon

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    I had this bot going nuts on my site for about three days a month ago. Sucked up 3 gigs in bandwidth.

    It is a shopping comparision bot for a forthcoming change to Yahoo Shopping. They are cruising around town looking for shopping cart/product sites so they can fluff out their listings. Currently I beleive they rely on pricegrabbers feeds but looks they plan on going solo a'la froogle with free listings.

    Haven't got a click back yet but we'll see.
     
    otc_cmnn, Aug 3, 2005 IP
  8. Ellora

    Ellora Peon

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    Yep, I have been seeing this bot too.
     
    Ellora, Aug 6, 2005 IP