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Yandex
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:12 pm
by rlown
Just a question. about the Yandex bot. why? Right up there as my "friendship" with Baidu.. Haven't seen that bot on lately.
Re: Yandex
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:09 pm
by ERIC
Because it hasn't been blocked yet or if it was (and I think that's one I did block some time ago) it was in an earlier version of htaccess. Still monkeying around with things so you might notice foreign bots for a short while.
Re: Yandex
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:15 pm
by ERIC
Checked and that's one that should be blocked. They must have found a way around what I had entered. Will research it.
Re: Yandex
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 9:28 pm
by ERIC
Convinced now that they've somehow found a workaround. Not something I can play with right now, but definitely a site we want blocked so will find a way.
Re: Yandex
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:04 pm
by ERIC
No visits since March 8 so hopefully resolved.
Re: Yandex
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 6:17 pm
by BSquared
Can someone educate me briefly: what's the problem with Yandex? Too many Russian spammers and hackers, so we'd just as soon keep a low profile in that part of the world?
Re: Yandex
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 6:27 pm
by ERIC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex
We don't cater to Russia, China, Ukraine or some of the other countries that have their own search engines so we block them. Beyond not targeting traffic from those regions, we simply don't trust these services.