Theft of the Day: Blogfox

For a couple of days the new search engine Blogfox.de allows its visitors to review various blogs and feeds. Nico Lumma of Blogg.de believes the Blogfox spider crawls files even if they are forbidden or restricted by the robots.txt – proof can be found in the logfiles of Blogg.de. Especially after being notified of these matters, the owner of Blogfox made a statement that their spider bot crawled several sites with all free accessable files, including opml, serp and other informational data. I personally believe these sites are meant to fail. To steal content from your competitors is one thing, but not to admit this treachery of honest content distribution is another one…