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All the tricks of the search engine trade and more ...
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IN THIS ISSUE
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= Sponsorship Notice
= News Flash:
  Great Corporate News - Plus, Take Your Chance
  To Save $$$ Before Our Forthcoming Products
  And Services Upmark!
= Stealth, Cloaking, Phantom Technology:
  How it works - and how it doesn't
  (Tutorial Part 4): Postponed till next issue
= Branding, Sloganizing and Search Engine Marketing
= Inktomi Spiders with UserAgent Mozilla -
  Pseudo or Real?
= Module mod_rewrite: Rule Conditions
  (Tutorial Part 2)
= fantomTip: Submitting to Go-Infoseek
= fantomTip: Afternic Domain Name Exchange Fraud Free?
= fantomTip: Make Your Site Accessible To the Disabled
= fantomSpot: Featured SE Site
= The Search Engine Grapevine: News 'n Stuff
= Classified Ads
= Guest Columnist:
  Robert Woodhead, "Tips on getting listed in Yahoo
 (and the other big indexes)" - Part 2
= How to Be Featured as our Guest Columnist
= fantomAd:
  "Spying On the Spiders: our new online service"
= Spider IPs: Lots of New Inktomi Spiders Detected,
  Plus Another Lycos and Some Excite Spiders
= Topics Scheduled For Our Next Issue
= fN Archives
= Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information

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Sponsorship Notice
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KEEP ON TRACKIN'!
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actually use to find your site is wishful thinking
which will effectively kill your marketing efforts and
drain your resources without significant cash returns.

So track real life search phrases and keywords, get
free reports on what people are really searching for!
Adjust your marketing to realistic search terms.

Presenting the net's best search term reference
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Read on here:
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+++news flash+++news flash+++news flash+++news flash++
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fantomaster.com: Restructuring Our Corporation;
Strategic Partnership; Takeover; Software, Services:
Shelved Projects, New Projects;
Retail Price Modifications
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(rt)  We are growing rapidly and have restructured our
operations in order to provide more comprehensive
services to our clients.

Here are the main points:

1. Incorporation News
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We have incorporated our venture in the UK as
"fantomaster.com Ltd.", a privately owned limited
liabilitiy company, which in turn holds a major stake
in our newly founded Belgian corporation
"fantomaster.com GmbH", yet another privately owned
limited company.

This was done to facilitate the international
expansion of our activities both in and outside the
European Union.

2. Strategic Alliance
---------------------
We are proud to announce our new strategic alliance
with WolfBlast Interactive, Inc. at:
< http://wolfblast.com > who have been doing a truly
exceptional job as our marketing partner in recent
months and who have contributed considerably to our
success within the web community.

Wolfblast Interactive's founder and CEO Lee Traupel
has 20 plus years of business development and
marketing experience. We strongly recommend them
for serious marketing activities both online and off!

3. tsigaan softer systems: Takeover
-----------------------------------
Belgian based fantomaster.com GmbH has taken over
"tsigaan softer systems", a department of
Verlag Ralph Tegtmeier Nachf. (Belgium) catering to
both the German and the international market for an
undisclosed sum of cash. This grants fantomaster.com
exclusive rights to all software code, trade marks,
copyrights, patents, client database, etc. formerly
developed and marketed by tsigaa softer systems.

4. New Killer Technology For Search Engine Positioning
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Search Engines are as always shifting their analysis
processes for listing and ranking web sites. Existing
(conventional) optimization strategies such as doorway
and hallway page development, meta tags, individual
page cloaking etc. are starting to be less effective.

So, our R&D  department has been working overtime all
these months to present webmasters with a unique,
proprietary technology for unprecedented efficient
search engine optimization and ranking we have named:
3D Context Delivery(TM).

Our 3D Context Delivery(TM) will soon be presented at
length on a dedicated domain of its own
(contextbase.com) after we have migrated our operation
to our new dedicated server (on which see next item).

Until then, feel free to inquire by email for a
comprehensive overview and a price quote at:
mailto:fn3d@fantomaster.com

5. New Dedicated Server
-----------------------
We are currently in the process of migrating our web
presence to a new, dedicated server to better service
our customers. While we are quite confident that
everything will work out nicely in the end, we are
time and experience hardened enough in matters WWW and
IT not to be overly optimistic regarding a truly
smooth, snag free transfer.

So we do expect some inevitable glitches to happen and
apologize in advance should this cause our clients and
readers any inconvenience.

6. New Retail Products And Services Policy
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In accordance with our new focus on developing our
venture into a full Application Service Provider (ASP)
in the webmasters tools and search engine optimization
field, we have streamlined our retail products
palette, shelving a number of ongoing projects (e.g.
fantomas shadowMaster(TM), fantomas popStar(TM) and
others), while upscaling others, e.g. the fantomas
spiderSpy(TM) service. We are also currently developing
a professional version of our immensely successful
fantomas blockFrog(TM) freeware IP blocker.

From 01 June 2000 we will provide a free search engine
spider verification service. Simply send us any log
file entry you wish to see researched and/or verified
as a search engine spider hit, and we will send you an
email report featuring all data we were able to come up
with, plus a detailed evaluation.

And, should it indeed turn out to be a spider -
a recommendation whether to cloak for it or not. Should
it be verified as a spider, it will also be added
automatically to our botBase.

Please send your search engine spider inquiries to:
mailto:spidercheck@fantomaster.com

Finally, our flagship, the fantomas shadowSniper(TM)
cloaking script will be released with a
FREE INSTALLATION SERVICE in future.

7. Save $$$ Before Our Forthcoming Upmark!
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Upgrading our retail products with new value added
services will go hand in hand with a new pricing
structure. We will no longer be able to offer our
extremely low introductory fees in future. Note that
some of the upmarks may appear to be pretty hefty! :-)

So if you want to save $$$ - BUY NOW! You will never
get our software and services as cheap again!
Do it right now, do it right here:
< http://fantomaster.com/faorder0.html >
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+++news flash+++news flash+++news flash+++news flash++
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Stealth, Cloaking, Phantom Technology:
How it works - and how it doesn't
(Tutorial Part 4)
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Due to the massive length of the present issue, this
item had to be postponed till issue #0005 - word of
honor! :-)
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Branding, Sloganizing and Search Engine Marketing
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(rt) The descriptions search engines offer when
displaying search results are generally retrieved from
two sources:

a) the displayed page's title tag;

b) the displayed page's description meta tag or, in
   default of same, the first characters of the page's
   body text; the number of characters displayed is
   limited, with some engines picking up a maximum of
   150 characters, other offering slightly more;

c) the displayed page's keywords meta tag - while this
   meta tag's content will not be excerpted for the
   displayed text's description proper, it is one of
   several factors determining which search results
   are displayed at all and in which order (ranking).
   (Note that this is a generalization - some, though
   few, search engines refuse to take into account any
   meta tags. Obviously, different rules apply in
   their case.)

Both a), b) and c) should relate to the specific
page's content, not the web site's or its corporate
owner's overall theme! That is why they are placed
individually in each page's header in the first
place.

There is a popular misconception amongst web
marketeers regarding search engine positioning
mechanics, namely that web page meta tags and titles
are to be employed as instruments of branding.
However, if true at all, this would typically apply
exclusively to a web site's main or index page.
One of the metaphors commonly used in propagating this
erroneous marketing policy is that of the "business
card".

While it is true that a search result functions as a
site's public representation it must also be noted
that this should always relate to the specific page
displayed: anything else may legitimately be deemed
diversionary tactics, meaning that the page could be
penalized for "spamming". (Yes, the respective search
engines' definition of "spam" varies widely and is all
but consistent. Also, in several cases it notably
lacks a consistent logical basis, but that is not the
topic at discussion here.)

This aside, it should be remembered that it will be
both, a page's title and its description which will
induce a searcher to actually click on the link and
visit the site.

Hence, a page's description as displayed in search
results is more akin to a product precis or summary
than a general corporate business card and should be
construed that way.

A unified approach, presenting one and the same
promotional text on each and every page displayed
by the search engines, while seemingly making sense
from the corporate image point of view, actually
constitutes a severe and unnecessary self-restriction,
effectively hampering the overall online marketing
efforts.

A practical example
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Let's assume that you are running a used car
dealership with an online presence (web site).
Your company's name is "Honest John Autos Inc."
and your main corporate marketing slogan which made
you famous all over your home town is "Used Cars
Galore: The Fairest - The Squarest - The Best!(TM)"

You offer a fairly extensive variety of used cars
in your products palette, ranging from farmers pickup
trucks to vintage American autos, foreign luxury and
sports cars, etc.

Your web site has some 150 pages, all of which you
will submit to the search engines for indexing.
The pages are well focused and carry specific titles, e.g.:

- "50s Chevvy Beauties"
- "As good as new - Oldsmobile special offers"
- "Luxury finally made affordable - the Porsche
   Paradise"
- "Agro Cars - the Pickup Center"
etc.

Now if you insist on putting your "Used Cars
Galore: The Fairest - The Squarest - The Best!(TM)"
slogan in every page's description tag, all you will
be able to rely on to pull visitors to your site is
your page title. But while it may appear to you that
the slogan is a nice marketing reinforcement of the
page title "Agro Cars - the Pickup Center", fact is
that you might as well qualify the title message with
a specific description which is a lot more to the
point in relation to the title - and to the surfer's
original request.

Hence, you might wish to describe your Agro Cars page
in a more focused manner, e.g.:

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"California's largest selection of second hand
agricultural pickup trucks - excellent condition, and
no-questions asked 30 days full refund guarantee!"
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(150 chars.), or similar.

This will usually be a far stronger incitement to
visit your page if the web surfer is actually a
serious buyer-to-be. It will also help pre-qualify
your web site traffic by eliminating visitors not
resident in California or perhaps not interested in
buying a pickup in another state than their own.

And there are even more advantages: the page will be
highly topical from the search engines' point of view,
which will normally improve its ranking considerably.

Since the page description will be indexed along with
the keywords meta tag and the body text, you will
increase your overall search engine coverage and
enhance the possibility of your page being found under
search phrase combinations you may not specifically
have optimized it for. (You can't do them all, and
some phrases and keyword combinations are so unlikely
or even contorted, it's highly probable you won't be
able to think of every possibility in advance.)

Thus, while you may be targeting the keywords or
search phrases "used cars", "second hand cars" and
"pickups", the example above may also give your page
a good ranking for combinations such as "+used
+pickups +guarantee" or "pickups California", etc.
Compare this to the limited scope of your "Used Cars
Galore: The Fairest - The Squarest - The Best!(TM)"
slogan!

So what about branding and sloganizing, then?
---------------------------------------------

Don't confuse the media you are working with!
And, of course, determine what your web site is
really about: do you actually want to sell products
and services online or, at the very least, draw
buyers to your brick-and-mortar sales rooms? In that
case you should proceed as suggested above, leveraging
the possibilities offered by keeping your page tags
flexible and focused.

But even if branding (without actually targeting
online sales) is all you care about, your web site
will still require some enticement to motivate people
to visit it.

You might offer some regular sports or betting
results, feature some online games, organize a
sweepstake, etc. These, too, will require focused and
well described web pages, else no one will come and
check them out. (Nobody will visit CocaCola's web site
merely for the heck of it or to imbibe their online
promo, unless they offer some entertainment and a prize
of sorts to do so.)

So there are some generic limits to conventional
branding on the web, and you will be well advised to
heed them. Search engines aren't the best medium to
try for it: you may sink a lot of money into the wrong
corner of the marketplace that way.

You may, however, push your branding considerably by
other activities than search engine optimization:
press releases, newsgroup participation, banner ads,
reciprocal links, online reviews, free trial
downloads, client testimonials, etc.

If you're interested in a professional, high quality
marketing package tailor made to your specific
requirements, we suggest you check out our strategic
partners at California based Wolfblast Interactive
Inc., < http://wolfblast.com > - you won't get
better value for your money anywhere!

Remember that search engines are supposed to be user
tools, not mere brain dead corporate billboards! If
you want to make your mark and increase your
(preferably pre-qualified) search engine traffic, make
sure to service the user first: this will in fact turn
out to be the best investment in your search engine
focused online marketing.

Users will appreciate it if your search engine ranking
prove to be relevant, informative and truthful. Just
like you, they don't like wasting their time on
confusing, misleading or nondescript search results.
And lots of studies have shown that search engine
optimization is actually the most cost-effective
marketing activity of all. It is bound to give you a
much bigger bang per buck for the simple reason that
it's a fairly lasting effect (at least, by internet
standards it is): Many of our clients are still
profiting today from search engine positioning work we
did for them 10+ months ago - no banner ad campaign can
beat that, not in absolute terms and certainly not for
that sort of money.

Search engines:
"Play them right, and they will feed you.
Play them wrong, and they will eat you."
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Module mod_rewrite: - Rule Conditions
(Tutorial Part 2)
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(bro) In last issue's first part we started off with a
discussion of the basics of Module mod_rewrite. In the
example reviewed there we made use of a rule which,
put in full words, states:

"If access to file .htaccess is attempted, return
an error message stating that access is denied."

This rule is valid globally, i.e. everyone will
receive the specified error message.

We can, however, restrict a rule by what is termed
"rule conditions" - in this case, the rule will only
be executed if the condition set has actually been
met.

Syntax: The condition must precede the rule!

Let us explain this procedure with an example.
(The lines below are entries in file ".htaccess".)

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]

The first three lines were covered in detail in Part 1
of this tutorial. Their function is to initialize the
rewriting engine.

The last two lines will refuse access to a spider
carrying UserAgent "EmailSiphon". This specific
spider is an email harvester culling addresses from
web pages.

Our line:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon

is made up of the following three parts:

Directive:   RewriteCond
TestString:  %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}
CondPattern: ^EmailSiphon

The TestString is a server variable which
is written in the general form of
"%{NAME_OF_VARIABLE}".

In our example we have defined the "HTTP_USER_AGENT"
as "NAME_OF_VARIABLE".

CondPattern is a regular expression.
Before we continue with its specifics, let us take a
look at regular expressions and their function in
general.

Regular expressions
-------------------

Regular expressions are a means of describing text
patterns. They are used to check if a text pattern is
present in any given text. Once determined, this
pattern can then be manipulated.

Regular expressions are similar to a small, compact
programming language in its own right.

E.g. the regular expression "s/abc/xyz/g" will
globally replace the string "abc" in a text by "xyz".

Here is an overview of the most important elements
with some examples:

.(dot) - text (any character)
|      - alternation (i.e. /abc|def/)
*      - quantifier (any number is allowed)
^ $    - line anchors
s      - operator (string1 to be replaced by string2)
g      - modifier (search parses the whole text)

Regular expressions are construed with the help of
these elements and alphanumeric characters.

Regular expressions are not used isolated by
themselves; instead, they are integrated in other
tools, e.g. in languages like Perl or in text editors
such as Emacs.

In connection with Module mod_rewrite they are used in
the directives RewriteRule and RewriteCond.


"^" represents the beginning of a string. It follows
that the UserAgent must begin with string
"EmailSiphon" and nothing else. ("NewEmailSiphon", for
example, would not work.) In this case the condition
would not be met.

But as this particular regular expression doesn't
contain the character "$" (end of line anchor), the
UserAgent could, for example, be "EmailSiphon2".


The last script line

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]

defines what will happen when a spider is requesting
access.

The regular expression "^.*$" signifies:

If access to any file is requested, the error message
"forbidden" will be displayed.

The dot "." in the regular expression is a meta symbol
(wildcard) and signifies any random character.

"*" signifies that the string may occur an unlimited
number of times. In this case, regardless which
specific page is called, an error message will be
displayed.


EmailSiphon is, of course, not the only email
harvester. Another famous member of this family is
"ExtractorPro".

So let's say we want to fend off this spider as well.
In this case we will require another condition to be
met.

This gives us the following entries to file ".htaccess":

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]

The third argument ([OR]) in line:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [OR]

is termed a "flag". In regard to conditions there
exist two possible flags:

NC (no case)
OR (or next condition)

Flag "NC" permits case insensitive testing of the
condition pattern.


Example
-------

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^emailsiphon [NC]

This line specifies that both "emailsiphon" and
"EmailSiphon" shall be recognized.

If you wish to use multiple flags, you may delimit
them by commas.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro

There are no restrictions to the number of conditions.
Thus, you could block 10, 100, 1000 or more
established email harvesters. Defining these 1000
conditions is merely a question of server performance
and of ".htaccess" transparency.

In the above example, the string "HTTP_USER_AGENT"
is being used.

Further server variables are:

REMOTE_HOST
REMOTE_ADDR

For example, if you want to block the spider comming
from < www.cyveillance.com >, you will use variable
"REMOTE_HOST". Thus:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} ^www\.cyveillance\.com$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]

The dot "." in the domain name must be protected
by "\" (backslash), otherwise it would be handled like
any other meta character.

If you want to block any given IP, the condition will
read:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^216\.32\.64\.10$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]

In the regular expression, enter the IP in its
entirety, delimited by the line anchors.

You may even exclude a whole IP range from access:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^216\.32\.64\.
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]

This example will cover all individual IPs from
"216.32.64.0" through "216.32.64.255".

Here's a little teaser quiz for you to check out your
skills. (The solution will be featured in the next
part of our tutorial.) Enjoy!

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RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^216\.32\.64
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F]

Quiz question:
--------------
If we don't write "^216\.32\.64\." for a regular
expression in the configuration above, but
"^216\.32\.64" instead, will we get the identical
effect, i.e. will this exclude the same IPs?
=================================================

Up until now we have used a simple RewriteRule
which will generate an error message. In the 3rd part
of our tutorial we will analyze how RewriteRule may be
used to redirect visitors to specific files.

(to be continued ...)
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Inktomi Spiders with UserAgent Mozilla -
Pseudo or Real?
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(bro) In recent weeks, rumors abounded in the search
engine optimization industry concerning Inktomi
spiders' newly detected usage of ordinary web browser
UserAgents in the course of crawling submitted sites.

However, the authenticity of these spiders has been
disputed by some search engine watchers. After
checking out the matter in some depth, read on to
learn what conclusions we have come to.

Here's some pertinent data ungrounded and evaluated by
our fantomas spiderScouts(TM) department.

Client site log entries
-----------------------
(data abridged; entry dates and file names modified to
protect client's privacy and cloaking setup)
----------------------------------------------------

209.185.141.185 - - [18/Apr/2000:03:45:49 -0700] "GET
/file1.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 416 "-" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]
(X11; U; NetBSD 1.4.2 i386; Nav)"
209.185.141.185 - - [18/Apr/2000:03:15:49 -0700] "GET
/file2.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 395 "-" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]
(X11; U; NetBSD 1.4.2 i386; Nav)"
209.185.141.185 - - [18/Apr/2000:03:15:49 -0700] "GET
/file3.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 437 "-" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]
(X11; U; NetBSD 1.4.2 i386; Nav)"
209.185.141.185 - - [18/Apr/2000:03:15:49 -0700] "GET
/file4.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 479 "-" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]
(X11; U; NetBSD 1.4.2 i386; Nav)"
209.185.141.185 - - [18/Apr/2000:03:15:49 -0700] "GET
/file5.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 499 "-" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]
(X11; U; NetBSD 1.4.2 i386; Nav)"

209.185.141.185 - - [17/Apr/2000:04:18:02 -0700] "GET
/file6.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 464 "-" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]
(X11; U; NetBSD 1.4.2 i386; Nav)"
209.185.141.185 - - [17/Apr/2000:04:17:58 -0700] "GET
/file7.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 388 "-" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]
(X11; U; NetBSD 1.4.2 i386; Nav)"
209.185.141.185 - - [17/Apr/2000:04:17:58 -0700] "GET
/file8.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 445 "-" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]
(X11; U; NetBSD 1.4.2 i386; Nav)"
209.185.141.185 - - [17/Apr/2000:04:17:58 -0700] "GET
/file9.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 359 "-" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]
(X11; U; NetBSD 1.4.2 i386; Nav)"
209.185.141.185 - - [17/Apr/2000:04:17:58 -0700] "GET
/file10.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 436 "-" "Mozilla/4.72 [en]
(X11; U; NetBSD 1.4.2 i386; Nav)"

These pages had all been submitted to Inktomi licensee
Anzwers. Only these pages were called - a behavior
quite typical for a spider. One single exception
aside, all calls took place at exactly the same time
(gauged by second).

The pages are all listed with dates April 17 and
April 18 respectively with Anzwers.

The spider was also detected when visiting our main
site at < http://fantomaster.com > as can be seen from
the following logs:

2000-04-14, 00:18:12 -- j6000.inktomi.com --
209.185.141.185 -- Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; NetBSD
1.4.2 i386; Nav) --  -- file_a.html
2000-04-16, 00:23:01 -- j6000.inktomi.com --
209.185.141.185 -- Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; NetBSD
1.4.2 i386; Nav) --  -- file_b.html
2000-04-16, 00:23:01 -- j6000.inktomi.com --
209.185.141.185 -- Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; NetBSD
1.4.2 i386; Nav) --  -- file_c.html
2000-04-18, 00:44:27 -- j6000.inktomi.com --
209.185.141.185 -- Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; NetBSD
1.4.2 i386; Nav) --  -- file_c.html
2000-04-18, 00:44:27 -- j6000.inktomi.com --
209.185.141.185 -- Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; NetBSD
1.4.2 i386; Nav) --  -- file_d.html

Log entries at < http://fantomaster.com > for the
newly detected Inktomi IP range:

si520.inktomi.com - - [17/Apr/2000:23:08:34 -0700]
"GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 410
si520.inktomi.com - - [17/Apr/2000:23:08:36 -0700]
"GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 17516

New entry in our fantomas spiderSpy(TM) botBase:
------------------------------------------------
#UA Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html
si520.inktomi.com
209.67.206.133

Checking RWhois shows this IP range as belonging to:

auth-area 209.67.0.0/16
class-name network
network-name 209.67.206.0
ip-network 209.67.206.0/24
organization Ken Lutz
address-1 1900 Norfolk St suite 310
address-2 San Mateo, CA 94003
created 69-DEC-31
updated-by dave@exodus.net

Here is another couple of examples of IPs which have
been featured in our botBase since some time:

The IP 209.185.141.185 (j6000.inktomi.com)
belongs to:
auth-area 209.185.0.0/16
class-name network
network-name 209.185.136.0
ip-network 209.185.136.0/21
organization Eric Hollander
address-1 1900 South Norfolk Street #310
address-2 San Mateo, CA 94403
created 69-DEC-31
updated-by dave@exodus.net

The IP 209.1.12.1 (wyatt-sc-vlan-12.inktomi.com)
belongs to:
auth-area 209.1.0.0/16
class-name network
network-name 209.1.12.0
ip-network 209.1.12.0/24
organization Inktomi Corporation
address-1 2168 SHattuck Ave. Suite 210
address-2 Berkeley, CA 94704
created 97-NOV-21
updated-by dave@exodus.net

Conclusion
----------
Inktomi's IP ranges were registered by different
entities.
Seeing that the postal addresses (Street, City)
for the two IP ranges discussed above are identical,
it stands to reason that the new Inktomi IP
(209.67.206.133) is part and parcel of a genuine
Inktomi IP range.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


======================================================
To WAP or Not to WAP
------------------------------------------------------
(rt) WAP: "Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an
open, global specification that empowers mobile users
with wireless devices to easily access and interact
with information and services instantly."

If you want to check existing WML pages in your
tread-of-the-mill web browser, you will probably like
these WAP emulators and browsers:

YourWap's Wireless Companion
< http://www.yourwap.com/ >
Ericsson WAP Toolkit
< http://www.ericsson.com/developerszone/ >
Nokia WAP Toolkit
< http://www.forum.nokia.com/developers/wap/wap.html >
WinWAP Windows Based WML Browser
< http://www.slobtrot.com/winwap/index.htm >
Gelon
< http://www.gelon.net/ >

Also on Gelon's resources site, read what you will
need by way of devices and applications to develop in
WML, the markup language for WAP devices:
< http://www.gelon.net/dev/ >

More on WAP is available here:
< http://www.allwap.com >

For a quick-an-dirty online WAP site generator check
out:
< http://www.wapdrive.net >

More WAP resources:
AllWap/Wapped
< http://www.allwap.com >
< http://www.wapped.nl/links/ >
Wap Service
< http://www.wapservice.com/ >
WebCab
< http://www.webcab.de/ >
WAPtastic/AnywhereYouGo
< http://www.waptastic.com/application/default.asp >
< http://www.anywhereyougo.com/ayg/ayg/Index.po >

Finally, here's a list of WAP search engines. While it
doesn't specifically mention WAP, TechWeb reports that
Inktomi (the world's largest, albeit least PR
credited, search engine) is pushing into the wireless
market with a vengeance:
< http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000314S0004 >
After both Alltheweb/FAST and Google have now joined
in the fray, expect more major players to roll
in soon.

FAST
< http://wap.fast.no/ >
GOOGLE
<  http://wap.google.com/ >
WAPAW
< http://wapaw.com/ >
WAPLY
< http://www.waply.com/ >
WAPUSEEK
< http://www.wapuseek.com/ >
WAPWARP
< http://wapwarp.com/ >
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


======================================================
fantomTip: Submitting to Go-Infoseek
------------------------------------------------------
(rt) On and off, Go-Infoseek's online submission
functionality is being deactivated.

The alternative: submit your pages by email (one full
URL per line). The additional advantage being that you
may submit as many pages as you wish - no penalization
for over-submission!

Send your submission email to:
mailto:www-request@infoseek.com
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


======================================================
fantomTip: Afternic Domain Name Exchange Fraud Free?
------------------------------------------------------
(rt) For an alternate domain name exchange to buy
or auction used domain names, try:
< http://www.afternic.com/ >
Signing on costs $5 which will be held against first
sale or buy. What's so neat about this feature is that
it's basically a credit card checkup which helps
reduce the risk of fraud, so virulent currently among
the auction networks. Whether it will really mete out
fraudulent auctions and fund transfers remains to be
seen, but until then it will at least qualify for a
nice, laudable try.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


======================================================
fantomTip: Make Your Site Accessible To the Disabled
------------------------------------------------------
(rt) Check your site: is it easily accessible to
disabled persons? Because if it is, search engine
spiders will index it well just as easily!

Still in doubt? Read what AltaVista has to say on the
matter: "Your rule of thumb should be to have at least
one full set of your content available in a form that
the blind can read. The blind are some of the best
users of the Internet today. They use text-only
browsers and text-to-voice converters, and they are
able to navigate very well unless people put up
barriers. The same kinds of barriers that stop the
blind also stop Web crawlers."

Source:
< http://doc.altavista.com/adv_search/
ast_haw_wellindexed.shtml >

Here's a free online checkup tool:
< http://www.cast.org/bobby/ >
You can even download an offline version for local
checkups:
< http://dev.cast.org/bobby/download.cfm >
They also offer a page with links on how to create
accessible sites:
< http://www.cast.org/bobby/access_sites.html >
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


======================================================
fantomSpot: Featured SE Site
"Searchspell Improves Your Results"

This meta engine will spellcheck your entries for
improved results and will then place your search
phrase into search masks for Google, About, GoTo,
HotBot and AltaVista, from where you start your
search proper.

If they integrate some more major and minor search
engines in their setup in future, they'll have a real
killer application. Very neat.

< http://www.searchspell.com/ >
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======================================================
The Search Engine Grapevine: News 'n Stuff
------------------------------------------------------

GoTo Launches B2B Portal
------------------------
GoTo's most recent launch features links to sites that
provide products and services used by small and
mid-sized businesses. The new B2B Directory is
currently focused on the needs of small businesses and
mid-sized businesses. The plan being to extend the
directory to cover a wider variety of industries in
future.
< http://www.goto.com/d/home/b2b/ >

Looksmart Abandons Free Submissions
-----------------------------------
Seems that you will have to pay $25 (non-commercial
sites) or even $199 (business sites) to simply submit
your web entity to Looksmart now:
< http://express.looksmart.com/ >

Google Goes Affiliate, International
------------------------------------
Paying 3 cents per click through (quarterly checks
from $25), this is another major player jumping on
the affiliate waggon:
< http://www.google.com/affiliates/welcome.html >
Of course, what this boils down to is the demise of
the former, no-frills and banner-free site look.
Furthermore, Google is now going French. And
German. And Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish,
Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, and Danish.
< http://www.google.com/lang_options.html >

Excite Launched Canadian Portal
-------------------------------
Excite Canada was up and running on March 2.
Find them here:
< http://www.excite.ca >

Yahoo! (UK) Goes WAP, B2B
-------------------------
Jumping on the European band waggon which is currently
being dominated by WAP technology, Yahoo! (UK) has
implemented a focused site at:
< http://wap.yahoo.co.uk/ >

Talking trendiness, Yahoo! has also set up a site
catering to business-to-business ventures:
< http://b2b.yahoo.com/ >

AltaVista Italy Online
----------------------
Originally, it was a mere redirect to their US site,
but AV has now launched its Italian presence.
< http://www.altavista.it/ >

French Search Engine Forum Launched
-----------------------------------
A new search engine forum in French was recently
launched at tyrannia.com. They are also looking for
moderators, so if your French is up to par, check out
this (unpaid) career opportunity!
< http://www.tyrannia.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi >

AltaVista Germany: Free Internet?
---------------------------------
After introducing their Free Internet model to the
UK (well, it's not that free, really: it does entail
a one time registration fee), rumors abound that
AltaVista is planning to do the same in Germany "in
the course of the year".

Inktomi Goes Wireless, Stresses Context
---------------------------------------
Inktomi, the world's largest (and probably least
known among its class) search engine has signed a
bunch of deals to place its foot firmly in the WAP
market, hopefully cashing in on the boom the Wireless
Applications Protocol is beginning to enjoy mainly in
Europe.
< http://www.inktomi.com/new/press/wireless.html >

Inktomi Will Display 500 Million Pages
--------------------------------------
Further, the company released its third-generation
index covering 500 million web pages. Powered by
their proprietary Coupled Cluster and Concept
Induction tech, we may expect Inktomi search results
to focus more on context, theme and content than
before.

Google Offers Plug-In Browser Buttons, Goes ODP, WAP
----------------------------------------------------
Plug-in buttons for your browser to implement Google's
search functions on your toolbar are available at:
< http://www.google.com/buttons.html >
On 16 March Google also announced integration of
Netscape's Open Directory Project (ODP). From their
press release: "Unlike other directories, Google uses
the advanced technology that powers its regular web
search to search over all the content of sites within
a category, not just the titles and descriptions. This
capability enables users to search deeper within
categories and produces more relevant results than any
other directory search.
Google's innovative classification technique connects
regular Google search results with information in the
Google directory. This technology gives users
one-click access from regular Google search results to
the most relevant hand-selected web pages in the
Google directory."
Find it here:
< http://directory.google.com >

You may also wish to try out Google's new wireless
search engine. This is currently the only engine that
actually translates all HTML web pages into text which
can be read on a WAP mobile telephone. Meaning that you
can search the entire web, not just special, WAP
formatted pages, and get results you can actually
read.

Try it by typing "Google" into your phone's micro-
browser. Or, look at it from the direct WWW
perspective at:
< http://wap.google.com/ >

SmartBorg Picks Your Engine
---------------------------
At SmartBorg (still in beta) you can let the online
bot suggest what it thinks will be your most promising
engine to search in.
< http://www.teleport.com/~lensman/sb/ >

Major Sites Hawking Minor's Privates
------------------------------------
Read this really funny satire on keyword driven
search and its brain dead results on most major
search engines:
< http://www.fnwire.com/news/021400/satire-privates.html >

Quaan Natural Language Search Engine Launched
---------------------------------------------
Quaan is a natural language search engine targeting
company knowledgebases of support information.
While you can test drive it at:
< http://www.quaan.com/ >
this requires a user name and a password.
Alternatively, you can run a test without prior
registration here:
< http://www.excite.com/info >/

Findia PPC Search Engine Launched
---------------------------------
They don't offer much yet, so there's really not
much to say except that they're a subsidiary of
FreeFind's < http://www.freefind.com >.
Check them out at:
< http://www.Findia.net/ >

Check Your Link Popularity
--------------------------
The Webposition people are offering this link for
free checkup of your own (and your competitors!)
link popularity. It checks with Alta Vista, Infoseek,
Lycos and HotBot. So is it reliable? (Most linkpop
checkers notoriously aren't.) Well, so so: we wouldn't
place our bet on the HotBot results so much, but those
results are wobbly by default, so it's not necessarily
the software's fault. Try it here:
< http://www.marketposition.com/linkpopularity.htm >

Another, more inclusive linkpop checker can be found
on Brett Tabke's fine web site at:
< http://www.searchengineworld.com >

Customized Favicons
-------------------
Get your customized favicon.ico at:
< http://www.favicon.com >

Searching In Private
--------------------
No cookies, no banner ads, no disclosure of personal
data: Google powered upstart "TopClick Private Search
Engine" appeals to privacy aware surfers who want to
search the web without being featured on Big Brother's
monitor screens all the time.
< http://www.topclick.com/ >

Internet Stats Portal
---------------------
An interesting portal for internet stats and surveys
can be found at:
< http://www.nua.ie/ >

Watch Your Registrar!
---------------------
If you thought that all domain registrars are created
equal and will only differ in respect of registration
fees and minimum duration, think again: it's not
only Network Solutions that reserves the right to
take away your domain name at their whimsy or to
change contract terms without even notifying you about
it.

Here's a new site that not only ranks registrars
but also explains in depth its criteria for doing so.
While we missed some pretty major players in their
ranking lists, this will hopefully change soon as the
site expands. Very useful!
< http://www.domainnamebuyersguide.com/ >

If you are considering switching your registrar, find
a concise tutorial on how best to procede on this site
as well:
< http://www.domainnamebuyersguide.com/m001/webpages/
howtotransfer01.htm >

Netvalue Ranks Top European Sites
---------------------------------
In French, but self-explaining:
< http://www.netvalue.fr/fr/presse/index_frame.htm?
fichier=cp0015.htm >

.TV Domains Available For Bidding
---------------------------------
You can bid for your .tv domain (actually Pacific
island group Tuvalu) at dotTV here:
< http://www.tv/index.tp >

NewFind Does Your Searching
---------------------------
From their site's promo page:
"NewFind.net is the search engine that gives you only
the freshest results of your search. Tell us what your
searching for and we'll do it - constantly - day and
night - and save what we find for you. Then when you
want to see your results, we will show you only pages
that have changed or been updated since the last time
you checked! We can even send email when something is
new!"
< http://newfind.net/idx_nc.html >

Hilarious: The Internet According to Jeeves
-------------------------------------------
Read here what can happen when someone pretends to
take all the marketing hype for real and involves
"smart" natural language search engine AskJeeves in
a - more or less enlightening - interview:
< http://www.fnwire.com/features/
satire-jeevesinterview.html >

Allfreak Offers Instant Submission
----------------------------------
Still tiny, but promising: fill in a few fields, add
keywords and site description, and Allfreak will
immediately spider and index your site.
< http://www.allfreak.com/ >
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======================================================
Guest Columnist
Robert Woodhead:
"Tips on getting listed in Yahoo
(and the other big indexes)" - Part 2
------------------------------------------------------
Intro:
Robert Woodhead is well known for writing one of the
first computer roleplaying games (Wizardry) as well as
one of the first anti-virus programs (Virex).

His latest project is
< http://selfpromotion.com/ > -
a URL-registration power-tool that helps you promote
your site to over a hundred search engines and
indexes. You can use it for free, then if you like it,
YOU decide how much you want to pay!
------------------------------------------------------

How to change your listing if you are already in Yahoo

Here is the link for the Yahoo Change Form

< http://add.yahoo.com/fast/change >
Simply go and fill it out. The standard "Read
everything three times and follow it to the letter"
rules apply. You can also use this form to get listed
in a second category.

The "Secret" Yahoo email address

Yahoo has made available a special email address that
you can use to let them know of problems with your
listing (or with getting listed). While not exactly
top-secret, it isn't widely known, so I am telling you
this with the understanding that you not abuse it.

I cannot emphasize this enough! Read these
instructions slowly and carefully. I've used this
technique. It works. But beware - Yahoo checks to see
if you've "followed the rules" and won't help you if
you haven't.

To get extra assistance with a new site listing,
submit the site normally, and if the site isn't listed
within a few weeks, then do a resubmission. If the
site still doesn't appear after a few weeks (and
you've followed my advice above to the letter!), then
e-mail url-support@yahoo-inc.com for assistance. You
must send the exact URL that you submitted, but you do
not need to send the categories you submitted to or
the actual dates you submitted on.

If you need a change to your listing, submit the
change, wait at least 7-10 days for processing, then
e-mail if a change doesn't appear. With change
requests, in addition to the URL, Yahoo needs the exact
 date of the change request -- so write it down when
 you make the request.

This email address is not a way to get priority
service, and Yahoo will likely get really pissed off at
you if you abuse it. And the LAST thing you want to do
on the net is get Yahoo angry at you! Typically it
will take them 7-10 days to act upon your email, if in
fact they do. If they don't, then do not under any
circumstances email them again. Instead, restart the
submission or change process from the very beginning,
making sure you adhere to all their restrictions, and
if you still don't get results, try the email address
again.

If you are submitting registrations for other people,
Yahoo asks that you not use this email address more
than 5 times a week (for 5 different sites, of course),
and you must in all cases go through the normal
process before using it.

You can also ask for reconsideration by mail or phone:

Yahoo! Corporation
3420 Central Expressway, 2nd floor
Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA

Listing Support Phone : 408-731-3333
Phone : (408) 731-3300 -- 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM PST
  Fax : (408) 731-3301

The Open Directory Project

The Open Directory Project < http://www.dmoz.org/ >,
formerly called NewHoo, is an "Open Source" directory
much like Yahoo, but edited by volunteers. As ODP is
now the directory listing source for Netscape, AOL
Search, HotBot and Lycos, and will soon be used by
many other search engines, including Altavista, it is
in the "big leagues" and is a must to submit to.

Note however that ODP's current search facility does
WORD searches, not string searches, so that the
keyword embedding technique does not work. So your
description for ODP should avoid pluralized words
unless they are likely to be in search queries. On the
plus side, you can have longer descriptions than on
Yahoo, but the category editor may edit you down.


Open Directory is also fairly unique in that you can
submit not only your homepage, but also selected
sub-pages that are strongly focused of a particular
topic of interest. So for example, I would submit the
selfpromotion.com homepage, as well as make submissions
for pages of particular interest like this one. Just be
careful and don't abuse this. Be honest with yourself,
and you'll get good results.

Here is how to submit to Open Directory. For each of
the pages you want to submit:

* Visit the major search engines that use Open
  Directory (I suggest Lycos, Hotbot, AOL Search and
  soon Altavista). Type a simple query that is likely
  to be used by someone searching for the contents of
  the page you are submitting. For example, when
  submitting my home page, I might enter searches like
  "register website for free," but when submitting
  this page of tips, searches like "how to get listed
  in Yahoo" would be appropriate.

* When the search results come back, look for the list
  of Open Directory categories. If there are no
  categories, then your query was too specific. Try a
  more general one.

* After you've viewed the results of several searches,
  click on the single category that you feel is most
  appropriate for your site. This link will take you
  to the category page.

* Somewhere on the page will be an add url link (it'll
  vary depending on the site you're using. This will
  bring up the Open Directory submission form.

* Submit your site. All the usual techniques are
  appropriate. Make a note of the category you
  submitted to.

* Repeat the process for each different page -- but
  don't submit two pages to the same category.

As long as you don't make too many submissions, and
your submissions are HIGHLY RELEVANT, you'll get
multiple listings. Even better, the editors may list
each of your pages in multiple categories if they think
it's warranted. If you try and spam Open Directory,
they'll remove you. Be responsible!

The current "official" waiting period for Open
Directory is 3 weeks. If you don't get in after 3
weeks, you may resubmit if you want to.

To review:

* You can submit multiple pages.

* Submit each page to only one category.

* Don't submit two pages to the same category.

* Wait 3 weeks before resubmitting.

For another perspective on submitting to Open
Directory, check out this page:

< http://www.laisha.com/search/odp.html >

The site also has tips on submitting to many other
major indexes that I found to be quite insightful.

InfoSeek Directory (aka Go.com)

InfoSeek < http://infoseek.go.com/ > also has a
directory in addition to their search engine. It's
tough to get into, but if you have a great site, visit
Infoseek, drill down and find the page you'd like to
be listed on (or do a search on likely search phrases,
and select one of the "Go Network Topics", and click
on the "Become a Go Guide" link. In return of helping
edit other submissions, you'll be able to submit your
own. All the basic tips about title and description
crafting apply.

Snap

Snap < http://www.snap.com/ > is a good but very
selective directory. You apply to the main snap
directory in pretty much the same way as with the
other indexes; drill down, find the right place for
your listing, and then click on the suggest a site link.

However, Snap has a second directory, the LiveDirectory
< http://livedirectory.snap.com/ > that everyone should
consider listing in. LiveDirectory is a second-tier
directory, and matching listings appear after the main
directory listings, but before websearch results.
Furthermore, LiveDirectory listings are candidates for
"promotion" to the main directory. The nicest thing
about LiveDirectory is that at least for now
(12/08/1999) it takes less than a day to get listed!
So give it a try. You have to become a member of Snap
in order to submit listings, but that only takes a
couple of minutes.

About.com (formerly The Mining Company)

About.com < http://www.about.com > is a very good index
that combines site listings with reviews and editorial
content. Each category is run by a guide, and they
decide if you get in. Several of the guides have told
me that the easiest way to get their attention is a
direct email, as opposed to using the "Feedback" link
on the pages.

Here are some tips, courtesy of a user who has asked
me to refer to him as "Deep Miner"

1. Find the specific sub-category within that site
   that is appropriate to place a link. About.com
   guides want DEEP links, not your homepage perhaps,
   but maybe a specific article you wrote. So look
   through their sites and then pick and choose
   articles you've written and submit for inclusion
   into a specific sub-category that matches it.

2. Offer a link back. Put a link to their site even
   before contacting them and said, "I find your site
   such a great resource that I've listed you in our
   links page." Guides want traffic too, so this
   reciprocal linking is a bonus to them.

3. I don't think it's as hard to get listed as Robert
   thinks, since I've done it for a few purely
   commercial sites that don't offer much content but
   their site is basically a brochure. You just have
   to approach it so that there is incentive for the
   guide to list the site. These guides are almost
   always more responsive than search engines and
   portals, since there is a specific person by name
   with an email address, all of which is made clear
   at the site.

Best of luck to you, and may all your submissions be
accepted on the day they were submitted!

---
Copyright © 1999-2000 by
Robert Woodhead, Webslave.
Check out other writing by Robert Woodhead at:
< http://selfpromotion.com/ >
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Spider IPs: Lots of New Inktomi Spiders Detected, Plus
Another Lycos and Some Excite Spiders
------------------------------------------------------
(bro) Here's a list of new Inktomi spiders:

#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
j4024.inktomisearch.com
216.35.103.77

lz3000.inktomi.com
216.35.116.60
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3001.inktomi.com
216.35.116.61
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3002.inktomi.com
216.35.116.62
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3003.inktomi.com
216.35.116.63
lz3005.inktomi.com
216.35.116.65
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3006.inktomi.com
216.35.116.66
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3007.inktomi.com
216.35.116.67
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3008.inktomi.com
216.35.116.68
lz3009.inktomi.com
216.35.116.69
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3010.inktomi.com
216.35.116.70
lz3011.inktomi.com
216.35.116.71
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3012.inktomi.com
216.35.116.72
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3013.inktomi.com
216.35.116.73
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3014.inktomi.com
216.35.116.74
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3015.inktomi.com
216.35.116.75
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3016.inktomi.com
216.35.116.76
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3017.inktomi.com
216.35.116.77
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3018.inktomi.com
216.35.116.78
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
lz3019.inktomi.com
216.35.116.79
#UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
wm3020.inktomi.com
216.35.116.105

#UA Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
j301.inktomi.com
209.1.13.232

#UA Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
brimstone-u2.inktomi.com
209.131.48.100

#UA Slurp/2.0-Boobook (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
y1501.inktomi.com
209.185.143.43

#UA Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
j3001.inktomi.com
216.35.116.41

#UA Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
j3002.inktomi.com
216.35.116.42

#UA Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
si3000.inktomi.com
216.35.116.90

#UA Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
si3001.inktomi.com
216.35.116.91

#UA Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
si3002.inktomi.com
216.35.116.92

#UA Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
si3003.inktomi.com
216.35.116.93

#UA Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
wm3024.inktomi.com
216.35.116.109

#UA Slurp/si (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
koala.inktomi.com
216.35.118.231

#UA Slurp/2.0-TechTargetCrawl (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
216.35.119.46

#UA #UA Slurp.so/1.0 (slurp@inktomi.com;
http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
i120.inktomi.com
216.35.119.253

Here's a recently detected spider from Lycos:

#UA Lycos_Spider_(T-Rex)
sjc-fe13-1.sjc.lycos.com
206.79.171.157

And here are recently detected spiders from Excite:

#UA libwww-perl/5.33
bunsen.excite.com
199.172.148.105

#UA libwww-perl/5.33
199.172.156.169

#UA libwww-perl/5.33
199.172.156.168

#UA libwww-perl/5.33
199.172.156.170
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