Yahoo slurped!

Posted by Hans de Ruiter

It appears that the single link to my site that Google indexed was enough to entice Yahoo in for a snoop, or should that be slurp. Yes, Yahoo's search-bot is called "Yahoo! slurp." Google describes their "Googlebot" as a spider that crawls the web; Yahoo is a little less delicate and slurps instead. Branding at work, even if only website administrators see it in their logs.

It took Yahoo less than 24 hours to find this site after Google added it to the index. At this point I still have some work to do before this site has enough content that I'm prepared to start cross-linking. It will be interesting to see what else (or who else) drops by in the mean-time. Anyone except spam-bots are most welcome.

Comments (0) | 9 June 2008