BotSeer

Press about BotSeer:
Webmasters May Shape Search Results
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Not all Internet search engines yield the same results for the same query, but that may have as much to do with how Web sites are managed as how search engines work...

Google Favored by Web Admins
PC World - USA
The research team created a search engine called BotSeer and used it to examine more than 7500 Web sites. The team found a pro-Google bias in terms of which ...

Webmasters favour Google over other search engines: Study
TopNews - Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India
Washington, November 16: Penn State researchers have found that website policy makers who use robots. txt files to specify what is open and what is off ...

Google bots get the red carpet treatment
VNUNet.com - UK
Webmasters who control automated web-crawler access to their sites using 'robots.txt' files have a bias that favours Google over other search engines, ...

Google favored over other search engines
By Martin2000(Martin2000)
Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a bias that favors Google over other search engines, say Penn State scientists whose study of more than ...

Research says Webmasters really like Google...
Hit Search - Liverpool,England,UK
University bods at Penn State have performed a study of robots.txt files from over 7500 websites and found that website have a bais towards Google. ...

Is Google the Favorite or just the Favored?
By chikt
Google, unlike it's competitors (Yahoo and Microsoft), has gone developed tools such as sitemap feeds, best practices spelled out and Robots.txt files to encourage web developers to make there content more accessible to Google's spiders ...

Comment on Robots.txt Study Shows Webmasters Favor Google
By asnider
In regard to the quote at the end: why would people go out of their way to specifically block MSNBot? MSN Search is hardly the best engine around, but people do use it, and I can't see a reason you wouldn't want MSN to index you.

BotSeer Tests the Major Search Engines.
By Charles Knight
We have presented a comprehensive survey of robot biases on the Web through careful content and statistical analysis of a large sample of robots.txt files. Results show that the robots of popular search engines and information portals, ...

Botseer
By Le Rérencement
Botseer est un projet d’un moteur de recherche initiéar un groupe de recherche àa Penn State University....

Estudio sobre robots.txt
By El rincóe Raquel
Primeramente, volar no me gusta nada y encima tuve que coger aviones diferentes, pero el vuelo de Madrid a Sevilla resultóy ameno y ademácultural en cuanto...

Study shows Google favored over other search engines by webmasters
By daylife
Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a bias that favors Google over other search engines, say Penn State researchers whose study of more than 7,500 Web sites...

Google favored by Web admins
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
Web site administrators use robots.txt files to regulate Web crawlers -- also known as spiders and bots -- and to help prevent servers from getting ...

Google Favored Over Other Search Engines By Webmasters
Science Daily (press release) - USA
15, 2007) — Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers favor Google over ...

Google shown favoritism by Web admins
By Alpha Doggs
Web site administrators use robots.txt files to regulate Web crawlers, also known as spiders and bots, and to help prevent servers from getting overloaded. The researchers found about 4 in 10 sites used robots.txt files, up from 1 in 10 ...

Robots.txt Study Shows Webmasters Favor Google
By Barry Schwartz
The study looked at which robots or crawlers were listed in a web site's robots.txt file, and Google was listed more often than any other search engine. The paper is named Determining Bias to Search Engines from Robots.txt (PDF) (it may ...