Cuil Bot Misbehaving?

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mneylon

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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
 
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blacknight said:
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
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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.

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
 
mneylon

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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 !
 
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blacknight said:
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 !
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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 :confused:
 
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