Alexa (IA Archiver)

Is this a important bot to have index your site?

for this month alone the alexa bot is killing my bandwidth.

heres the stats

Alexa (IA Archiver)
hits - 1773
Bandwidth Usage - 41.52 MB

Compared 2

Inktomi Slurp
hits - 1853
Bandwidth Usage - 11.34 MB

Any info will be helpfull

As best as I can tell Alexa uses Google results for the search, but they spider the pages primarily for archive.org

http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#2

thx for the above.

i though alexa used google results aswell.

Any info on whether this bot is a usefull one or whether i can disallow it without losing out.

thanks

Did you read archive.org? I guess it just depends on whether you want the benefit of the cached copies of your site. Personally, I've never been fond of Alexa and every spyware removal tool I use ID's them as spyware. There are arguments for and against and some discussion is already archived at OZZU and can be found via search.

yeah alexa always shows up as spyware 4 me aswell.

well before i block the alexa bot from my site im gonna wait and see if any else has anything good to say about alexa and the alexa bot

Here are my complete thoughts on them:
http://www.ozzu.com/other-search-engines/alexa-experiment-t31830.html

As an added note, I have not blocked the bot.

For more reading simply type Alexa into OZZU's search.

the google script i have on my site uses alexa for the thumbnails
Search for OZZU

thanks 4 the above i did abit of searching and found this

http://www.searchenginegenie.com/Danger ... agents.htm

it has ia_archiver as a useless bot so i think that answers my questions.

thanks