Like most sites on the web this site is often visited by web crawling robots.
Slurp,
Googlebot and
MSNBot are three such examples. Why am I telling you this? Well, I was being geeky and perusing the access logs for this site a few days ago, and I noticed a visit from robot I hadn't seen before called
TurnitinBot.
Apparently, TurnitinBot's sole purpose is to help its owners,
Turnitin, to collect content from the web, which they in turn use to help thousands of educational institutions prevent plagiarism! Anyway, I thought it was such an interesting use of a web crawler, I just
had to post about it. Cheating students, beware!
