Thursday, October 30, 2008

JadynAve Bot Wants Your Local Data

If you have a bunch of local data like I do then you better protect it because JadynAve's Local Business Search appears to be coming after your site with their JadynAveBot!

Didn't ask for robots.txt, has no data whatsoever on their robot page except to email them if you have any questions, big whoop.

Here's the IP and user agent:

38.99.186.40
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; JadynAveBot; +http://www.jadynave.com/robot"
I wouldn't bother trying to add them in robots.txt since they didn't ask for robots.txt.

This is a job for .htaccess!

A little research revealed they have also crawled without the "bot" in their user agent so you'll just want to block anything with "jadynave" in it.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"deny from 38." in .htaccess works brilliantly for JadynAve and hundreds of other bots just like it ;)

Anonymous said...

Thanks Bill.

Anonymous said...

Another bot from the infamous 38 range. I have yet to see anything good from anything 38 ...

Anonymous said...

It seems that every one would want share their local data these days(don't forget to click on ads). I wish they also learn how to spell the word Image. Currently defaults to "NO IMGAE" for the thumbs there...