Disallow Gigamega.bot from your site
If you notice a bot called Gigamega.bot/1.0 in your server logs, make sure you take steps to stop this bot from hitting your site. They are not a search bot. If you go their site (http://www.gigamega.net/) you'll find that aren't a "real" search engine. None of the links on the page go anywhere, and if you perform a search all you get back is a page of Google ads.
I don't know what their story is, but they aren't a search engine, and they don't respect the robots.txt file. The fact that they went through the trouble of setting up a fake home page indicates to me that they are scraping sites and hoping that people don't notice.
I don't know what their story is, but they aren't a search engine, and they don't respect the robots.txt file. The fact that they went through the trouble of setting up a fake home page indicates to me that they are scraping sites and hoping that people don't notice.
| Rating: | 100% positive, 4 total Votes |
| Categories: | scams internet search engines |
| Added: | on Oct 03, 2007 at 2:55 pm |
| Added By: | an anonymous user |
I blogged about this at:
http://johannburkard.de/blog/www/spam/id-search-org-is-back-block-gigamega-gigamega-bot-1-0-http-www-gigamega-net-bot-html.html