Topicblogs
Today looking at the web server logs, I found a new crawler. It came from the address 66.90.81.41 (=topicblogs.com).
“66.90.81.41 – - [08/Aug/2005:19:37:55 +0200] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0” 404 6503
66.90.81.41 – - [08/Aug/2005:19:37:56 +0200] “GET /node/feed HTTP/1.0” 200 5964”
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Since than it visits me like every time I do a manual ping-o-matic update. And it only grabs the RSS feed.
As I am a Googler by heart, soon found some relevant entries :)
The first post about it was in May, with guesses, and since than nothing more happened. The topicblogs.com website is still a “Comming soon” page, however, one can write a mail to support@.
“Started seeing http://www.topicblogs.com/ crawling the site. Only one mention on Technorati. Topic blogs, eh? Maybe some uber-related-tags kind of thing? Who knows. WHOIS and Google suggest this guy. Good luck!” @ thom.org.uk
Rumors say Jeff Chan is the author.
References:
- [thom.org.uk|http://thom.org.uk/blog/Topicblogs.aspx]
- [propitiate.net|http://propitiate.net/2005/08/20/topicblogs-a-new-blog-service/]
- [Jeff Chan’s page|http://www.backweave.com/blog/]
- [tnl.net|http://www.tnl.net/ua/category/Spider/TopicBlogs/0.9] (basic crawler info)
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