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Is it spam? Snapbot/1.0

Lately I have been receiving hits by a robot named Snapbot/1.o. In my referral logs it refers to itself as

ROBOT
with ip: 38.98.19.67 and user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (SnapPreviewBot) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9

or as

SPAM
with ip: 38.98.19.68 and user agent: Snapbot/1.0 (Snap Shots, +http://www.snap.com)

If you check out snap’s website, they state that the robot is used to show thumbnails of your site to users that have their browser plug-in installed. In addition, frequent hits could also be their robot snapbot/1.o indexing your site for future thumb views.

So if you are receiving traffic from ip address range: 38.98.19.66 to 38.98.19.126 they are from snap.com and appear harmless.

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One Response to “Is it spam? Snapbot/1.0”

  1. butterflower Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 7:26 am

    wordpress has this snap view on/off option. when u hover ur cursor over a link a small window pop up and show the preview of the website. as far as i know it is harmless. maybe useful too. people can see the preview of ur site and if it looks interesting enough they’ll click and wallah… a visitor!

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