What is Yahoo! Slurp?

Yahoo! Slurp was the official web crawler for Yahoo! Search, responsible for fetching and indexing web content to populate Yahoo's search engine database. Operating primarily in the 2000s, Slurp systematically visited websites, followed links, and gathered information about web pages to ensure Yahoo's search results were comprehensive and up-to-date. Webmasters could identify Slurp through its user agent string, typically containing 'yahoo-slurp'. The bot respected standard web crawling protocols, such as robots.txt, allowing site owners to control its access. Yahoo! Slurp was eventually retired as Yahoo transitioned to using Bing's search technology.

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