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User-agent identification and SEO crawler database

I am requested to analyze the traffic log of a site. In particular I have to identify the crawlers starting from the collected user agent values. I know there are 'trap' links that you can use to ...
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Why is BingBot causing so many 404 errors by removing letters from url's?

Since the ForceRecrawl problem went away Bing has come back with some new trends. I'm seeing many URLs missing the last letter, or missing a few letters, and some other wired guess URLs. It also ...
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Am I covering the major search engine spiders in my anti-crawl protection white list?

I've a system which blacklists users who request too many pages too fast if they are not in my white list. We are just worried about the main search engines and to be honest Google is the only one my ...
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What user agent should I set?

There is Ask bot, which sets this header: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma) Considering this, I have the following questions: If I'm writing a web crawler named Goofy, what user agent ...