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Originally Posted by blacknight  The only one I've had to ban recently was some French bot that was doing very odd things on search.ie
The bandwidth usage wasn't the issue - the constant pounding on every single CGI script was ! |
Sounds like Voila. Was a good search engine once but it seemed to degenerate into a spamfest. I'm not sure if it was involved in that Quareo farce where the French wanted to build a European (Franco-German) search engine to beat Google. Naturally, it failed. But not quite on the level of Cuil.
Regards...jmcc