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> Turnitin.com's web crawling robot, also known as TurnitinBot. This robot
> collects content from the Internet for the sole purpose of helping
> educational institutions prevent plagiarism. In particular, we compare
> student papers against the content we find on the Internet to see if we can
> find similarities. For more information on this service, please visit
> www.turnitin.com [1]
>

TurnitinBot General Information Page [2]

It's a bit sobering to realize I'm getting about a thousand hits per day (so
far this month) but that eight to nine hundred of those are various robots
[3] out there, indexing my site.

I think I can now understand where someone could get 10,000 page views and
4,000 visits [4] (not to say their counts are wrong—I just think the software
they're using may not take into account robots). Last month I got over 13,000
page views but … taking out the robots, I'm left with 2,235 human viewed (for
the most part) pages.

I mean, I'm flattered that robots like my site and all that but still …

[1] http://www.turnitin.com/
[2] http://www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
[3] http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/04/09.3

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