Playing catchup with the bots

In 2 weeks between posts we have 25 new bots to welcome to the fold.

Here's the run down on the most interesting new entries:

• Cazoodle/Nutch-0.9-dev showed up sporting some sort of nutch bot on behalf of Cazoodle.   related...
• 2 variations of SeekBot/1.0 - RobotsTxtFetcher/1.2 and HTTPFetcher/2.2 arrived in our web logs just minutes apart from each other - apparently, the robots text fetcher runs first to scope the site out, then the HTTP fetcher rolls in once the coast is clear   related...
• On August 28, our site was infested by NetAnts/1.25. Luckily, nobody was bitten and the NetAnts went on their way to the next site.   related...
• As if an ant infestation weren't enough, we had a visit from the Speedy Spider shortly thereafter   related...
• The high-tech Fusion-ware.com bot was next up   related...
• OpenIntelligenceData/1.1 stopped by and read our content also. I'm glad we were on their list for open and intelligent data.   related...
• We also had a drop-in from Vagabondo/3.0.   related...
• Possibly the most exciting news we have is that findlinks came back with a new version! After a two week hiatus of no new releases, findlinks/1.1.3-beta9 came through for us.   related...

We'd also like to welcome a new contributing site (yes, we get web stats from sites other than our own... no, that's not cheating!). Our newest contributor, Speedy Realtors.com provides a free search for finding a real estate agent in the United States, and has recently begun contributing site statistics to Bots vs Browsers. Maybe we'll see some interesting real estate bots or home buying spiders come through over the next few weeks.

On that note, we also added a new section to the site to recognize all of our contributors.

This draws our week to a close with 43,228 user agents and 529 bots