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2008.7.6 - Dog Days of Summer Bots

We had quite a few new faces in the logs last week, from established sites like Yahoo! all the way to some new startup search engines that are sending their bots out into the wild to harvest searchable content. Here's the high points of our week:
  • Yahoo! has a new YahooSeeker-Testing/v3.9 bot that dropped in for a visit. related...
  • TheRarestParser/0.4b is a new version sent from TheRarestBlog. This bot crawls web pages to find the rarest words used on the web. related...
  • Watch out Google - here's two startup search companies that are crawling the web -
    OOZBOT/0.17 from Setooz - their site is currently "Under Construction", but a search engine will likely appear there someday. related...

    Zook.in looks like a startup that sent their Knight/0.2 bot by for a visit. From visiting their site, it looks like they aren't quite ready for prime time yet since there isn't really a site there yet. related...
  • Slurpem Search sent a bot informing us that they are "Sucken Up The Web". I hope Slurpem is thirsty, because there's alot of web out there to suck up. related...
  • Firebat 2.7.13 is a new bot on our site as well. Firebat does not have a good reputation on the web from what our research has turned up. They are mentioned in many places with large denial of service attacks and several other shady activities. related...
  • EmailWolf 1.00 prowled our sites looking for emails to chew on, but we don't post emails, so the email wolf went hungry. related...
  • Someone or something at IP 84.0.233.218 was kind enough to attempt a script injection to call a javascript alert telling the calling browser of XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerabilities on the site. Of course, we are not vulnerable to XSS, but nice try. This puts us at 75 unique script injection attempts. Make sure when you are viewing your web stats that you do not allow scripts to be executed from the user agent, or they could easily snipe your cookie and hack your web stats portal. related...
We're heading into the second week in July now at 185,694 user agents and 1,993 bots - thanks for visiting!

Blog Archives:

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




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