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 :

March 26th, 2008 at 1:13 am
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