Archive for December, 2007

YodaoBot

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Owner of the robot : NetEase
Country : China
Robot type : search engine
Description : NetEase is known for its popular Chinese portal 163.com. It was using Google as its search engine till the middle of 2007, when it decided to replace it by yodao, its own search engine.

User Agent transmitted to the visited web server :

Mozilla/5.0 [...]

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Google-Sitemaps

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Owner of the robot : Google Inc.
Country : USA
Robot type : probe
Description : This Google probe sporadically checks the existence of the verification file of the Google Webmaster Tools. It searches for the file name written in upper and in lower case letters. The goal is probably to determine whether the server is case sensitive.
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