Searchme.com apologizes

May 21st, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
After writing about Searchme.com on my blog I received an apology from them. See the apology here:

Hello,

Please accept our apologies for the problems your outlined in your feedback email. We also saw your blog post, and we’re terribly sorry for the trouble.

We want to let you and your readers know that when provided with the domains in question, we always take immediate action to prevent further traffic from our crawler. Additionally, we are working hard to prevent similar problems in future.

Again, we offer sincere apologies.

Kind Regards,

Michelle

Searchme.com Bot gone crazyThanks for replying back to my email and my blog post, Michelle. I will accept your apology. I don’t know if it makes sense to provide domain names to you, as I think there is a huge flaw in your crawl technology that your developers should be able to identify easily. Anyway – here is a screenshot of the searchme bot dominates my website statistics on one of my websites. So far I have identified 3 websites of mine that were hit hard. I also went back to last month and reviewed my websites in questions and saw the same behavior (just a noth “friendlier” than this month). Not funny. I wonder how many other websites are being hit hard like this?

 

 

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