GeedoProductSearch
A program used to scan webpages and in particulat online stores to find products for the whole world to buy.
User agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GeedoProductSearch; +http://www.geedo.com/product-search.html) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36
Verifying
Check the authenticity of a GeedoProductSearch using reverse DNS lookup:
- Run a reverse DNS lookup on the accessing IP address from your logs. Verify that the domain name ends with [.geedo.com]
# host 83.99.151.65
domain name pointer product-search-83-99-151-65.geedo.com.
- Run a forward DNS lookup on the domain name retrieved. Verify that it matches the original accessing IP address
# host product-search-83-99-151-65.geedo.com
product-search-83-99-151-65.geedo.com has address 83.99.151.65
IP Ranges
Limiting
To limit GeedoProductSearch, use rate limiting directive in robots.txt file
Blocking
If you want to block GeedoProductSearch from accessing some of your content, you can do this by specifying GeedoProductSearch as the user-agent in robots.txt file
User-agent: GeedoProductSearch
Disallow: /forum