Yahoo Japan
What is Yahoo Japan?
About
Yahoo Japan is an intelligence gatherer operated by Yahoo. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Yahoo Japan visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.
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Operated By | Yahoo |
Last Updated | 7 hours ago |
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Should I Block Yahoo Japan?
Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.
How Do I Block Yahoo Japan?
You can block Yahoo Japan or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.
# robots.txt
# This should block Yahoo Japan
User-agent: Yahoo Japan
Disallow: /