Yahoo! Slurp

Yahoo! Slurp is a web crawler from Yahoo! that obtains content for the Yahoo! Search engine. Slurp is based on search technology Yahoo! acquired when it purchased Inktomi.

Slurp identifies itself by using the following User agent strings:

 * Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)
 * Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp China; http://misc.yahoo.com.cn/help.html)

External links

• Yahoo! Search Resources for Webmasters
• Yahoo! Slurp's official FAQ
• How can I reduce the number of requests you make on my web site?
• Yahoo! Site Explorer is a webmaster tool that lets you access the information Yahoo! has about a site's online presence. You can see which sites and subpages are indexed by Yahoo! Search, track sites that link into web pages, and view the most popular pages from any site. More...
• Yahoo! Search Blog
• Yahoo! Weather Report Blog Posts