PSbot (the picsearch.com bot) has been mentioned plenty already as a dodgy bot, while I can't find any reference to the Accelobot (Accelovation.com) on the forum. PSbot has been been VERY busy the last few days, while this Accelobot appeared out of nowhere and started absolutely THRASHING my site, with 100's of hits (a lot for my site). I have had NO appreciable benefit from Picsearch, no traffic sent my way, my pictures don't even seem to be indexed. Accelovation I can't say. Opinions on these two bots? Any point in letting them run amok on my sites?
Picsearch search spiders always respect robot.txt and we will immidiately address any problems that you inform us about. Please send an e-mail to info@picsearch.com and we will see that any problems get handled as soon as possible. Please go to http://www.picsearch.com to try our service. Picsearch takes robot.txt seriously and has a short text on our website at http://www.picsearch.com/menu.cgi?item=Psbot. Best Regards Carl Sarnstrand Communications Manager Picsearch
Good to hear "from the horse's mouth". The Picsearch idea seems reasonable - I am still surprised not see any of my pictures of mine indexed by the engine though. I don't mean they are works of art or anything, but considering the heavy activity I would have expected to at least some of my pictures listed.