Yahoo! Goes Fishin'! (from Aaron's Article Archive)

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Welcome What's New Contact Me Yakkity Yak Astounding Adventures Creative Desktop Wallpaper Aaron's Library Aaron's Picks Geocaching IPFW Patches Crypto Hashing CHRSH mtik Ruby Gem About Aaron PGP Key IWAChat (AJAX) Magic Square Puzzle Alice's Works FileSafe Ruby script	Use Google to search aarongifford.com: Here is one of my web log entries, perhaps from my Yakkity Yak page, What's New page, or one of my Astounding Adventures from my Geocaching section: Yahoo! Goes Fishin'! Wednesday, 28 April 2004 7:10 PM MDT Yakkity Yak On a whim, I perused my web server's access and error logs. I was surprised to note some requests for documents that don't exist on my site. The requests asked for the following files (which don't exist on my site): audits.html addguest.html services.html.en schedule.html employment.html.en services.html.es index.html.en about.html.en employment.html.es browse.html I double-checked the IP addresses of the clients (all on the same class C subnet), and they belong to "Inktomi Corporation" -- you know, the one acquired by Yahoo! The access log section that records the HTTP user agent agreed: `66.196.72.70 - - [27/Apr/2004:21:06:03 -0600] "GET /audits.html HTTP/1.0" 404 209 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"` So is that the "new thing" to do? Go fishing for documents even when there are no links to any such documents? Will other search engines start doing this too? Interesting. [Permanent Link] Track Back: 0 Post Comment
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