Mars Finder
GoodBotVerifiedBOTMars Finder is a website search service designed to utilize the maximum potential of a website. MARS FINDER has held the top share of website search service market of Japan in 2017. Operated by Mars Flag.
What is Mars Finder?
Mars Finder is a web crawler operated by Mars Flag. Mars Finder is a website search service designed to utilize the maximum potential of a website. MARS FINDER has held the top share of website search service market of Japan in 2017. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.
Identification
(dbot)How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- I wonder if it will actually respect the robots.txt this time. - Hacker News
- google ignoring robots.txt ? - Google Search Central Community
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- 20 Common Robots.txt Issues (and How to Avoid Them) - seoClarity
- Problems with web crawlers not respecting robots.txt file - SSL / TLS
Why it crawls your site
Mars Finder crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Mars Flag as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow Mars Finder
Add a Disallow rule for (dbot) in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block Mars Finder from crawling your entire site User-agent: (dbot) Disallow: / # Allow Mars Finder full access User-agent: (dbot) Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows (dbot). Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Mars Flag's documentation.
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