We set a new milestone this week for our user agent database - we broke 2,000 bots!
This week's logs were comprised mostly of new versions of bots we know about.
There are a few new faces mixed in there too - here's the latest:
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On the browser side, one new face in our logs is from
iGetter.
This is a new download utility that looks pretty interesting.
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Thumbshots is another new bot on our site - we witnessed 3 unique bot user agents from them this week:
thumbshots-de-bot,
KFSW/1.0.0.0.4 thumbshot-de-bot, and
KFSW/1.0.0.0.1 ThumbShots-de-bot.
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Exooba crawler/0.5.1 debuted this version this week in our server logs.
According to their site, they are a testing crawler that uses gathered data strictly for testing purposes only.
Their site also informed us that they fully comply with robots.txt exclusion standards.
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Here's an interesting one - Daruma/1.08 (Windows 98; U) [en].
We were unable to find anything about this user agent in our research.
When googling this bot, we are the only result on google as of yet.
However, according to Wikipedia, the word "Daruma" is commonly used to describe "Daruma Dolls", also known as dharma dolls.
These are hollow, round Japanese wish dolls, modelled after Zen patriarch Bodhidharma.
This just goes to show that you can learn alot more than techie facts on this blog.
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CatchBot/1.0 is another new face on the site.
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Metaspinner/0.01
is a bot from MetaSpinner - yet another search engine crawling the web for data.
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OmniExplorer_Bot/1.0x Job Crawler
is a new version of the OmniExplorer bot family.
OmniExplorer has a long standing pedigree of bots on our site, and here you can see more of them:
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Yacybot is another long-standing bot family on our site, and they turned up a new version this week as well
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We posted about our first OOZBOT sighting last week, and now we have a new user agent from them as well:
OOZBOT
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Mid July is approaching fast, and we've got
187,746 user agents and
2,018 bots - thanks for visiting!