NaverBot


Owner of the robot : NHN Corporation

Country : South Korea

Robot type : search engine

Description : Naver is a major Korean search engine and portal. Naver announces 16 millions visitors and 1 billion page views a day.

The company claims that they respect the robots.txt file, but several reports indicate that this is not always the case.

    User Agent transmitted to the visited web server :

    • Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; NaverBot/1.0; http://help.naver.com/delete_main.asp)

    IP address range :

    • from 202.179.176.0 to 202.179.183.255 ()
      (last visit in August 2007)

    User Agent transmitted to the visited web server :

    • Yeti/0.01 (nhn/1noon, yetibot@naver.com, check robots.txt daily and follow it)

    IP address range :

    • from 61.247.192.0 to 61.247.223.255 ()
      (last visit in March 2008)

    User Agent transmitted to the visited web server :

    • Yeti/0.01 (nhn/1noon, yetibot@naver.com, check robots.txt daily and follows it)

    IP address range :

    • from 61.247.192.0 to 61.247.223.255 ()
      (last visit in July 2007)

    User Agent transmitted to the visited web server :

    • Yeti/0.01i (nhn/1noon, yetibot@naver.com, check robots.txt daily and follow it)

    IP address range :

    • from 61.247.192.0 to 61.247.223.255 ()
      (last visit in January 2008)

    User Agent transmitted to the visited web server :

    • Yeti/1.0 (+http://help.naver.com/robots/)

    IP address range :

    • from 61.247.192.0 to 61.247.223.255 ()
      (last visit in March 2008)

    Access control options understood by the robot :

    • robots.txt
    • META NAME=”robots”

    User Agent to use in the robots.txt file : Yeti or NaverBot

    URL for more information :

    One Response to “NaverBot”

    1. Ahamed Bauani says:

      Recently this bot (NeverBot) has changed its user_agent value. Currently give user_agent value:

      Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; NaverBot/1.0; http://help.naver.com
      /delete_main.asp)

      Hmmm — Seems NHN Corp write this bot for Never.Com Let’s see what happen…

      Interesting page related to NeverBot:

      http://www.spidermatic.com/en/robot-spider/20
      http://www.pgts.com.au/cgi-bin/psql?robot_info=10570

      Mine is:

      http://www.bauani.org/thinkings/2008/03/new-web-robot-naverbot-very-bad-manners.html


     

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