http://spiderhunter.com IP Address Tracking, IP Address database and Search Engine Spider information Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:40:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know I haven't posted to this site in a very long time, but I have been working on some email related projects for quite some time. I've been writing an open source email (SMTP,IMAP and POP) server in Erlang called ErlMail at http://erlsoft.org which has been happily taking up all of ... http://spiderhunter.com/spiderl/131/current-project/ It is old news that Google uses the sitemap protocol which allows webmasters to tell Google's spider, Googlebot, which web pages have been updated recently. The greatest advantage is that Google will use the sitemap to make sure they spider your web site in a more intelligent way that you control within the ... http://spiderhunter.com/spider/129/sitemap-protocol-for-yahoo/ For the past several weeks I've been redesigning the site and I recently redirected the RealTimeSpiderList.com to point back here to SpiderHunter.com. I've been moving my servers around and I am no longer hosting the servers at my home. I eventually plan to host these servers on my own hardware sometime ... http://spiderhunter.com/spiderhunter/122/yet-another-site-redesign/ I was wandering through my local book store and I happen to come across a book with an interesting title IP Location. It turns out to be a book on geolocation from several different points of view. I flipped through it and I'm planning on purchasing it soon, I also ... http://spiderhunter.com/ip-tracking/121/ip-location-book/ For the past month I have been working on the Netflix Prize, trying to create some collaborative filters in pure Erlang. While I am no where near a winning score, at the moment, I have learn a lot about how I want to create my own websites in a pure ... http://spiderhunter.com/spiderl/120/netflix-and-spiderl/ In the most interesting Google and cloaking related story I've found lately, as you might notice from the lack of blogging, it seems that the New York Times is using cloaking technology on their web sites. I'm not sure who actually broke this story, but Danny Sullivan from search engine ... http://spiderhunter.com/cloaking/119/guess-whos-cloaking-now/ I'm a big fan of Jenstar from webmaster world as well as her JenSense web site. For the most part I'm interested in the information about AdSense and other contextual advertising mediums, occasionally she surprises me with information that is usually a bit more technical than I would expect. (Not ... http://spiderhunter.com/spider/118/different-googlebots-doing-the-same-work/ Google announced recently on one of their blogs that they are now using META tags for site map validation. I personally think this is a fantastic idea and wish they would have done this from the beginning. The Google site map program seems to be obsessed with proving that you own the page ... http://spiderhunter.com/seo/117/google-site-maps-meta-tags/ I've had a few requests to have access to my JavaMail IMAP CFC so I'm releasing it for anyone who wants to play with it. This is free open source code. No need for any licensing at all. There is no warranty and I will not be providing any technical support. I highly ... http://spiderhunter.com/imap/116/javamail-imap-cfc/ I just went through and cleaned up the comments across this site. Seems some people felt it necessary to spam the blog comments, if I notice this anymore I'll have to rework the comment code to limit or require registration, which I do not what to do... And for the record, ... http://spiderhunter.com/spiderhunter/115/cleaning-up-comments/