Below is an example of the same command syntax, using Yahoo Slurp (now deprecated in the U.S.but still actively crawling internationally). URL exclusions with robots.txt and meta robots: It's important to consider what robots exclusion is taking...
If you want the instructions to apply to all spiders, you can use an asterisk on the first line: User-agent: * You can also identify specific spiders to allow or disallow, such as googlebot, Yahoo's slurp, or Microsoft's MSNbot.
Slurp 3.0 recognizes the same user-agent and all robots.txt directives for Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 won't change the content Yahoo crawls on your site: the new Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 will originate from the crawl.yahoo.net domain.
Yahoo is giving webmasters more control over page-level directives to its Slurp crawler for non-HTML files. Similar to the way a robots.txt file is used, or a meta tag, the X-Robots-Tag can use the NOINDEX, NOARCHIVE, NOSNIPPET, or NOFOLLOW tag to...
Identifying Slurp in robots.txt files will not be affected, as the user-agent name will remain the same, as will the IP addresses of the crawlers. Yahoo's web crawler, affectionately known as Yahoo Slurp, is moving.
Yahoo Slurp Adds Wildcard Support For Robots.txt The Yahoo Search Blog announced that Yahoo's web crawler, aka Yahoo Slurp, now supports wildcards in the robots.txt file. It's what Yahoo's photo-based social network Flickr uses to show which images...
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that Yahoo's web crawler, aka Yahoo Slurp, now supports wildcards in the robots.txt file. The two parameters that Yahoo now supports include the "*" and the "$. The * will tell Yahoo to do a "wildcard match a...
Both Rajat Mukherjee from Yahoo and Vanessa Fox from Google stated that the best way to control their respective bots is to use the robots.txt protocol.Slurp (the name for Yahoo's bot) is an obedient bot," Said Mukherjee.
Scan the IP Address column, and you'll see how Yahoo's Slurp spider is in many, many different threads all at once. Beyond the points above, he addresses not wanting to make use of non-standard extensions to robots.txt that Google,
To ensure consistency and minimal disruption, we will continue to maintain the 'Slurp' name within our web crawler user agent and continue to support 'Slurp' as part of any robots.txt files that references this.
Slurp/2.0 (slurp@inktomi.com, http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html) Slurp/2.0 (slurp@inktomi.com; http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html) Total Requests robots.txt robots.txt robots.txt robots.txt robots.txt robots.txt robots.txt robots.txt robots.txt...
