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Who Isn't Paying Attention to ROBOTS.TXT?

Posted by Cliff on from the bad-spider-no-donut dept.

Kickstart asks: "After wading through the Apache logs, after being hit hard for three hours by a very unfriendly spider, I see that there appear to be real, legitimate, search engines that do not follow robots.txt rules. Looking around, I see that some specialized search engines make no mention of their policy on this or say what servers their spiders come from. Does anyone have information on who follow this standard and who doesn't?"

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  1. ok, let's get this out of the way... by glamslam · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In soviet russia, spiders ignore you!

    Can you imagine a beowolf cluster of these?!

    1.2.3.Profit!

    I *am* a spider, you insensitive clod!