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2007.1.12 - Happy 1st Birthday!

Bots vs Browsers turns 1 year old today!
Anyways, now that 2007 is here, we have 15 new bots to show off. Here are the most interesting in the bunch:
  • Encourage/6.16 (Win95) made it's debut in our logs, and is interested in content rendered down to the Win95 level. Wow - can you believe Windows 95 is 12 years old now? related...
  • SitemapsPal.com Sitemaps Spider crawled our sites - ok, ok - we ran this bot against our own sites to generate sitemaps for Google. If you are a webmaster and have not looked into Google sitemaps yet (or Yahoo! sitemaps for that matter), you need to get on the ball and try them out. related...
  • LapozzBot/1.4 is a foreign bot whose user agent URL could not be translated by Google Translate, so we know nothing more about this bot except it has a funny sounding name. related...
  • Another new bot that we have not seen until this year is MetaGer_PreChecker0.1. We can't find any information on this bot either - nobody seems to know what it's doing. Click on this user agent to see IP's and dates for when we have seen this bot, and maybe somebody can figure out what it is. related...
  • The odd looking Omri David. Omri and David are both names used in the Old Testament of the Bible, and apparently they are in the bot business these days. related...
  • BeckyBot/2.0 visited in her spare time this week as well. There is a .com site named after her, but it looks like it has nothing to do with bots and more to do with apparel made of duct tape. related...

Now halfway into January, we have 54,058 user agents and 746 bots

Blog Archives:

2010.1.12

Happy 4th Birthday, Bots vs Browsers!
2009.7.12

300,000 User Agents!
2009.5.31

Summer Bots make a splash!
2009.4.18

Where did Palm go?
2009.2.18

Happy Belated 3rd Birthday to Us!
2008.11.23

Bots should be thankful
2008.10.22

Would you say I have a plethora of new bots?
2008.9.6

200,000 User Agents!
2008.8.3

Here comes August...
2008.7.13

2,000 bots!
2008.7.6

Dog Days of Summer Bots
2008.6.23

Another one bites the dust
2008.6.22

Bots don't run out of gas
2008.6.19

And we're back...
2008.1.21

Happy 2nd Birthday!
2007.10.25

The Creature Post
2007.9.7

iTunes, Facebook, Google Earth, and more
2007.7.22

Hot Summer Bots
2007.7.6

The Apple iPhones have landed!
2007.6.13

Twiceler calls off the bots
2007.6.13

Twiceler Strikes!
2007.6.3

Land of 1,000 bots
2007.4.22

April Bots Bring May Traffic... (we hope)
2007.4.16

Spring Cleaning in the Web Traffic Logs
2007.3.24

March Bot Madness
2007.3.10

Got Spiders?
2007.2.24

Some New Faces (bots, of course)
2007.2.10

Winks, DataFountains, Hijacks, and Tool - what's the connection?
2007.2.3

February Stars
2007.1.12

Happy 1st Birthday!
2007.1.1

The 2007 bots are in!
2006.12.23

Have a Merry-Bot-Christmas
2006.12.12

50,000 User Agents!
2006.11.4

2 weeks, 19 new bots
2006.10.17

2 weeks, 30 bots
2006.10.2

4 weeks, 23 bots
2006.9.9

Playing catchup with the bots
2006.8.26

500 bots!
2006.8.20

5 days, 8 bots
2006.8.15

Two weeks, 15 new bots
2006.8.2

Another week, another gang of new bots
2006.7.25

40,000 User Agents!!!
2006.7.4

New category, bot revisions, and 6 new bots for July 4th
2006.6.25

New batch of imports!
2006.6.18

5 new bots, just in time for Father's Day!
2006.6.4

8 new bots for the database
2006.5.19

A couple new sightings
2006.5.9

Quiet week, one new bot
2006.5.2

A few new bots
2006.4.20

A quick bot-sighting update
2006.4.12

More user agents, more bots
2006.3.19

5,000+ New User Agents
2006.3.9

42 more bots, lots of new user agents
2006.2.19

New Bots and Browsers just addded!
2006.1.25

Welcome to Bots vs Browsers!
2006.1.17

Welcome to the User Agents Database that has no name yet!
2006.1.12

Day One