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Why would the TurnItInBot be interested in this forum?
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:20 pm
by Fennris
I´m used to seeing google and yahoo bot having a sniff round but an academic anti plagiarism bot? Why has that taken an interest....just out of interest
Re: Why would the TurnItInBot be interested in this forum?
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:33 pm
by Fennris
Re: Why would the TurnItInBot be interested in this forum?
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:38 pm
by Firejack
No clue. Many bots seem to visit the site though.
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TurnitinBot [Bot] 07 Jul 2010 02:13 pm
Yahoo [Bot] 07 Jul 2010 01:57 pm
Google [Bot] 07 Jul 2010 12:05 pm
MSN [Bot] 06 Jul 2010 08:08 pm
Ask Jeeves [Bot] 06 Jul 2010 01:38 am
Majestic-12 [Bot] 19 Jun 2010 05:46 pm
Exabot [Bot] 16 Jun 2010 07:12 am
MSNbot Media 28 May 2010 05:17 pm
Baidu [Spider] 19 May 2010 05:42 am
Alexa [Bot] 24 Jan 2010 11:33 pm
Google Feedfetcher 12 Jan 2010 11:39 pm
psbot [Picsearch] 21 Aug 2009 04:42 am
Google Desktop 23 Jun 2009 12:30 pm
Gigabot [Bot] 23 Jun 2009 12:10 pm
W3C [Validator] 02 Dec 2008 10:43 am
Google Adsense [Bot] 30 Jul 2008 09:35 am
WiseNut [Bot] 25 May 2008 07:11 am
Probably the case they are all pretty dumb and just search every server address they can resolve. I imagine the magic that makes search engines useful is how that information is processed from such a raw form into coherent search results.
Re: Why would the TurnItInBot be interested in this forum?
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:42 pm
by Fennris
Its one thing to have a search engine sneaking into your site but this bot collects previously private information and stores it on their servers...the anti plagiarism bot is plagiarising us!!
The info it steals (bandwidth too) is then sold as part of their database service to educators.
It will ignore your disallow list in robot.txt too, what a piece of low down, dirty software...
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/2899.htm
Re: Why would the TurnItInBot be interested in this forum?
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:13 pm
by AmigaFan2003
this bot collects previously private information
If it's on the interweb then it's not private.
Re: Why would the TurnItInBot be interested in this forum?
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:33 pm
by Fennris
Always true but before this bot at least I had the illusion...
