Inktomi

mawells · #1 (**permalink**) 05-05-2006, 09:39 AM

I posted this at "other search engines" but perhaps this is a better place to post it.

Does anyone know what's going on with Inktomi? I have a client that has had inktomisearch.com visit his site over 6,000 times last month using various IP addresses. Naturally, this has thrown his site statistics way off. Our software did not pick them up as being a "crawler." Just wondering if anyone has heard anything about them making a comeback or something.

jwil · #2 (**permalink**) 05-05-2006, 02:45 PM

I noticed that Inktomi had been on my website a couple times last month as well. Although it wasn't near the 6,000 times you had!

kustvissen · #3 (**permalink**) 05-05-2006, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by mawells

I posted this at "other search engines" but perhaps this is a better place to post it.

Does anyone know what's going on with Inktomi? I have a client that has had inktomisearch.com visit his site over 6,000 times last month using various IP addresses. Naturally, this has thrown his site statistics way off. Our software did not pick them up as being a "crawler." Just wondering if anyone has heard anything about them making a comeback or something.

the last year i had 112 visites from inktomi and you can't stop them for every crawler they do the send a other code whit it inktomi 23874this code changed every time.

mawells · #4 (**permalink**) 05-05-2006, 03:40 PM

Yes! Each IP, which is different, converts to fj5008.inktomisearch.com, fj9010.inktomisearch.com, etc. Can't tell if these are searchers coming to the site on some query or crawlers.

weslinda · #5 (**permalink**) 05-05-2006, 05:29 PM

I'm not sure what is going on, but I had two days just like it.

We have about 300 pages on one of the sites I manage and yet one day, we got like 6000 pageviews, which was way out of the norm.

Appears to be from the same mix as yours.

Not sure what is going on, but they seem to be waking up.

**incrediblehelp** · #6 (**permalink**) 05-05-2006, 07:35 PM

I am confused why if Yahoo (Inktomi Spider) crawling your website is a bad thing or even a thing to care about?

T2DMan · #7 (**permalink**) 05-06-2006, 03:52 PM

Its something to care about when it maxes out your bandwidth - May.

8.9 gig on one of my sites, compared to 665meg for Googlebot, and viewed human traffic 5.81 gig.

Because I happen to want good yahoo rankings, I upgraded my hosting account to cope with it. Not sure why I bother, because of all the search engine traffic, I only get 9% of it from Yahoo, compared to 74% from Google.

**incrediblehelp** · #8 (**permalink**) 05-07-2006, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by T2DMan

Its something to care about when it maxes out your bandwidth - May.

8.9 gig on one of my sites, compared to 665meg for Googlebot, and viewed human traffic 5.81 gig.

Because I happen to want good yahoo rankings, I upgraded my hosting account to cope with it. Not sure why I bother, because of all the search engine traffic, I only get 9% of it from Yahoo, compared to 74% from Google.

Then block slurp then through robots.txt if you dont want to pay for bandwidth.

mawells · #9 (**permalink**) 05-10-2006, 08:10 AM

These inktomisearch.com visits are not the Yahoo Slurp visitors. They are separate. My stats software picks up Yahoo Slurp as a crawler - it does not recognize these IP addresses from inktomisearch.

Also, is Inktomi providing the database for Yahoo search? It was my understanding that they were not. (I thought, although I could be wrong, that Yahoo was simply renting out the Inktomi database to other search products like HotBot.)