Yahoo Finalizes Slurps Move To New Address
The Yahoo Search Blog announced the transition of Yahoo Slurp, Yahoo’s web crawler, from inktomisearch.com to crawl.yahoo.net is now complete. The IP addresses and the user-agent are remaining the same but the DNS lookup is different, it is now crawl.yahoo.net. This does not apply to other Yahoo crawlers, including Yahoo China, Yahoo Shopping, Yahoo Travel […]
Barry Schwartz on June 5, 2007 at 1:09 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
The Yahoo Search Blog announced the transition of Yahoo Slurp, Yahoo’s web crawler, from inktomisearch.com to crawl.yahoo.net is now complete.
The IP addresses and the user-agent are remaining the same but the DNS lookup is different, it is now crawl.yahoo.net. This does not apply to other Yahoo crawlers, including Yahoo China, Yahoo Shopping, Yahoo Travel and other Yahoo crawlers that have their own user agents.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.