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    EchO! Spider

    Anyone noticed this new spider? I've never seen it before and its been crawling all my sites in the last week. Any idea who it belongs to? I googled it and checked robotstxt.org but can't find any records of it. It seems to be doing a much better job of crawling my sites than Inktomi and googlebot

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    I think it's the same spider that generates google sitemaps from http://sitemap.xmlecho.org - I used their service to generate a sitemap for a large site of mine and that's when it hit me. Why it would be hitting your site when you're not using that service, though, I'm not sure.

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    Makes sense. I did use that tool for 2 sites. Dont know about the others though...

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    I'm pretty much positive I've never used that tool... I just started researching it myself, when I noticed in my logs that it's using a LOT more bandwidth per hit than any other spider...


    Code:
    Robots/Spiders visitors 	 
    14 different robots	Hits	Bandwidth	Last visit
    Inktomi Slurp	9276+838	61.12 MB	15 Jan 2007 - 21:39
    MSNBot	3191+679	236.43 MB	15 Jan 2007 - 21:37
    Googlebot	3249+8	179.88 MB	15 Jan 2007 - 04:19
    Unknown robot (identified by 'crawl')	785+30	6.46 MB	15 Jan 2007 - 12:12
    Alexa (IA Archiver)	425+110	55.78 MB	15 Jan 2007 - 21:39
    EchO!	457+8	317.41 MB	15 Jan 2007 - 00:28
    Unknown robot (identified by 'spider')	227+52	2.04 MB	15 Jan 2007 - 20:56
    LinkWalker	202+1	4.92 MB	08 Jan 2007 - 00:56
    Unknown robot (identified by hit on 'robots.txt')	0+173	133.24 KB	15 Jan 2007 - 19:19
    AskJeeves	12+11	72.52 KB	15 Jan 2007 - 11:06
    WISENutbot	17+1	82.51 KB	15 Jan 2007 - 07:29
    Voyager	11+5	223.62 KB	14 Jan 2007 - 23:34
    Unknown robot (identified by 'robot')	3	206.27 KB	14 Jan 2007 - 01:46
    Scooter	0+1	817 Bytes	11 Jan 2007 - 08:28

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    Just found another tidbit:
    http://www.psychedelix.com/agents/index.shtml

    They list 'EchO!/2.0' as belonging to 'echo.fr' which redirects to http://www.francetelecom.com/en/

    Edit: AHA!

    Hello,
    we (http://www.echo.fr) currently used metaprogramming in our
    www search engine (http://www.voila.fr or http://www.wanadoo.fr).
    http://www.oonumerics.org/oon/oon-li...hive/0607.html
    Last edited by Paul Kemp; 01-15-2007 at 09:21 PM.

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