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Inktomi is the worst spider ever. Not only is it still looking for pages I removed from my site years ago (and redirected to new locations years ago), but it continues to look for pages that have never existed on my site. Argh!

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Neat article at Slate →

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Jason Davies (http://www.netspade.com/) wrote:

Yeah Inktomi is the same for me. It seems to have a problem following links, especially ones beginning with a slash '/' because I'm getting strange 404 errors for pages that have never existed too.

∴ Jason Davies | 19-Sep-2003 7:10am est | http://www.netspade.com/ | #2939

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