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Identification of the Mirago Internet robot. These include owner, description, HTTP user agent and whether this robot adheres to the robot exclusion standard.

Owner Mirago
Country UK
Description Mirago is a search engine which is aimed at UK web sites.  It was launched in the Autumn of 1998. Results given are descriptions of the page and details of when the page was last updated. It has subsequently created a presence in Germany and France, and more recently in Spain.

The search may be further refined  into regions of the country.

Mirago is a provider to the second-tier search engines, such as DogPile.co.uk, InfoSpace.co.uk and IXQuick.com, Beegoo.co.uk and parts of the ISP Tiscali. The most well known part is Ask Jeeves UK.

IP Addresses 194.202.39.46
217.154.245.209
HTTP User Agent HenryTheMiragoRobot (http://www.miragorobot.com/scripts/mrinfo.asp)
Exclusion

The Mirago robot supports the robots.txt exclusion standard, which is described at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html#robotstxt. To stop the robot from visiting the /cgi-bin directory:

User-agent: mirago
Disallow: /cgi-bin/

Further Info. www.mirago.co.uk and www.mirago.com/com/robotstxt.asp

NAT August 2005 (Revised)

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