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Bots vs Browsers - database of 196,862 user agents and growing
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2008.6.19 - And we're back...
So to break the silence on the blog for the last few months, I just wanted to give a little shout-out to the Wget/1.5.3.1
bot at 70.238.66.172
for making it onto my banned IP list. This bot was banned because they severely abused our bandwidth over the last few days.
Since this site is informational and we like to catch bots "in the wild", we rarely impose restrictions on the bots that visit.
However, this bot hit us 82,000+ times in just a few hours today, and over 50,000 times in the last 3 days.
After today's volume, we banned them.
Sorry about the delay between posts - alot of work has happened mainly on our other sites over the last few months, and that consumed our time. I'll start posting more frequently now that we are out of the woods on the principal development of our newest sites. For the sake of keeping this blog's integrity, I'll refrain from shameless promotion of those sites here...
As far as growth on the site, you should check out our iPhone
category - it is our most visited category so far this year.
In other news, we have now reached 181,492 user agents and 1,951 bots
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2008.8.3
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Here comes August...
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2008.7.13
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2,000 bots!
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2008.7.6
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Dog Days of Summer Bots
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2008.6.23
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Another one bites the dust
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2008.6.22
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Bots don't run out of gas
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2008.6.19
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And we're back...
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2008.1.21
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Happy 2nd Birthday!
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2007.10.25
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The Creature Post
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2007.9.7
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iTunes, Facebook, Google Earth, and more
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2007.7.22
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Hot Summer Bots
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2007.7.6
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The Apple iPhones have landed!
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2007.6.13
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Twiceler calls off the bots
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2007.6.13
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Twiceler Strikes!
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2007.6.3
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Land of 1,000 bots
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2007.4.22
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April Bots Bring May Traffic... (we hope)
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2007.4.16
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Spring Cleaning in the Web Traffic Logs
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2007.3.24
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March Bot Madness
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2007.3.10
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Got Spiders?
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2007.2.24
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Some New Faces (bots, of course)
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2007.2.10
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Winks, DataFountains, Hijacks, and Tool - what's the connection?
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2007.2.3
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February Stars
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2007.1.12
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Happy 1st Birthday!
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2007.1.1
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The 2007 bots are in!
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2006.12.23
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Have a Merry-Bot-Christmas
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2006.12.12
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50,000 User Agents!
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2006.11.4
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2 weeks, 19 new bots
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2006.10.17
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2 weeks, 30 bots
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2006.10.2
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4 weeks, 23 bots
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2006.9.9
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Playing catchup with the bots
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2006.8.26
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500 bots!
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2006.8.20
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5 days, 8 bots
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2006.8.15
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Two weeks, 15 new bots
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2006.8.2
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Another week, another gang of new bots
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2006.7.25
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40,000 User Agents!!!
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2006.7.4
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New category, bot revisions, and 6 new bots for July 4th
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2006.6.25
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New batch of imports!
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2006.6.18
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5 new bots, just in time for Father's Day!
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2006.6.4
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8 new bots for the database
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2006.5.19
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A couple new sightings
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2006.5.9
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Quiet week, one new bot
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2006.5.2
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A few new bots
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2006.4.20
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A quick bot-sighting update
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2006.4.12
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More user agents, more bots
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2006.3.19
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5,000+ New User Agents
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2006.3.9
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42 more bots, lots of new user agents
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2006.2.19
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New Bots and Browsers just addded!
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2006.1.25
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Welcome to Bots vs Browsers!
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2006.1.17
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Welcome to the User Agents Database that has no name yet!
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2006.1.12
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Day One
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