Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Yahoo's SpiderMan

Don't think I've ever seen Spiderman crawling before and APNIC claims it's from a registered block from Yahoo in China.

A lookup revealed:
Official Name: d24.search.cnb.yahoo.com
IP address: 202.165.102.186

APNIC claims it's them:
inetnum: 202.165.96.0 - 202.165.111.255
netname: YAHOO-ASIA-2

So now the big question is what's the advantage of letting an all English web site get crawled by a Chinese version of Yahoo?

Anyone have any insights on this?

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