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About LinkBacksAccording to a post on Techcrunch Cuil's bot is causing a lot of issues for webmasters:
Is Cuil Killing Websites?
Has anyone seen any issues?
I'm going to check logs to see if I can spot anything, but I hadn't noticed anything to date
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Cuil Bot Misbehaving? According to a post on Techcrunch Cuil's bot is causing a lot of issues for webmasters:
Is Cuil Killing Websites?
Has anyone seen any issues?
I'm going to check logs to see if I can spot anything, but I hadn't noticed anything to date
Wannabe Geek
Well Yahoo is more of a problem here. If I ever catch some of their "engineers" they are going to get a major LART. I've been considering banning Yahoo as a waste of bandwidth.Originally Posted by blacknight
I took Cuil off the banned list for a while to see how it fares. So far it hasn't overloaded the server. However this reply from one of Cuil's engineers is very worrying:
How CUIL Lost Me as a Customer Long Before They Launched : My Code is Compiling
If someone used that "experimental spider" excuse on me, I'd use my experimental shotgun excuse.
Hard to think that Irish Blogger/Sunday Times columnist Sarah Carey was "strategic advisor" to the CEO.
Regards...jmcc
Web Slave
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 !
Wannabe Geek
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
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It seems Cuil have a lot to be concerned about. The search results it is producing at the moment are horrendous, so much for being a Google filler
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