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Why you consider Yandex evil?

• eksith 13y ago
  I don't know if this is universal, but Yandex was quite bad in the past at stumbling around generated links (E.G. calendars that go to infinity) and it wasn't at all unusual to see 400+ links crawled in a day or so. Baidu was the same, but I think they're more well behaved these days.
  • Moru 13y ago
    Lucky you with only 400+ per day. We had thousands per hour. Still the server survived but it wasn't fast...
• Cthulhu_ 13y ago
  I IP-banned Chinese search engine crawlers (yandex, baidu etc) because they did not respect the crawl-delay instruction in my robots.txt, causing my low-end crappy php server running vbulletin to bork out. Basically, their bots are too aggressive.
  • tbirdz 13y ago
    Yandex is Russian, not Chinese.