Bot Catcher

The British Search Engine for the Discerning User



Can I display my banner in a specific category?


We support category based banner advertising and have affordable advertising packages for all types of budget.

'Bot Catcher' is currently receiving:

  • an average of 8,000,000 Hits Per Month.
  • an average of 28 Search Requests Per Minute.
  • an average of 1,200,000 Unique Visitors Per Month.

'Bot Catcher' can be found at the following locations:

The Term "Our Websites" includes but is not restricted to the following list of URLs:





Benefits of 'Banner Advertising' include: 
 

 

  • Prominent Banner Display at the top of your selected category page.
     
  • Choose to appear in as many relevant categories as you require.
     
  • Free duplicate banners in similarly named categories

    i.e.

    • If your category choice is “Shopping” your banner appears in:

      • England > Oxfordshire > Business and Economy > Shopping
         
    • And for free in:

      • England > Buckinghamshire > Business and Economy > Shopping    etc. etc.
         
  • Flexible and affordable packages to suit all budgets.
     
  • Banners are available on a first come, first served basis. Once you have chosen the category for your banner, your banner will always appear at the top of that category's page for your chosen time period.
     
  • Statistics information showing how well your Banner is working for you.
     
  • Banner Design if required.
     
  • Link to a self-designed web page if you don't currently have your own website.
     

(We have very flexible software, which when combined with the skills of our in-house development team and graphic designers enable us to quickly tailor individual solutions to meet our advertisers' requirements.)


For more information and to discuss your individual needs, contact us using the Our Contact Form....


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Can I watch the launch pad?


Where Have They Gone Spy... - Watch the Launch Pad and see in (real-time) where people are going to.

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Give me 1 good reasons to register?


Registration is currently FREE

Once registered you can use the self-service features to: 


Registration is via the User Registration... page.


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How big is 'Bot Catcher'?


As of 19 May 2012 'Bot Catcher' currently contains:

  • 9,646 people (including you) are currently using our site. [MUN]
  • 287,011 people have registered and have active accounts. [TSC]
  • 4,009 Passive Contributor Nodes. [TUC]
  • 68,873 Category Nodes. [TCC]
  • 25,000,000+ Site Listings. [MUN]

'Bot Catcher' is currently receiving:

  • an average of 8,000,000 Hits Per Month.
  • an average of 28 Search Requests Per Minute.
  • an average of 1,200,000 Unique Visitors Per Month.

'Bot Catcher' can be found at the following locations:

The Term "Our Websites" includes but is not restricted to the following list of URLs:





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How can I add 'Bot Catcher' to my Web Browsers favourites?


Just Click Here!

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How can I add a Site to 'Bot Catcher'?


To create a Site Listing on 'Bot Catcher' just takes two simple steps:


  1. Register using User Registration...
     
  2. Navigate to the required Category using 'Bot Catcher' Directory... then click on the Add a new site entry link.

    Or

    Use Site Entry Creator...


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How can I improve the ranking of my site on 'Bot Catcher' for FREE?


Answer: Yes

There are several easy ways of increasing your site listing's ranking on our service, and they won't cost you a penny.

  1. Create a (reciprocal) link from your site to ours Some Examples of reciprocal linking...
     
  2. Make sure you select appropriate Categories for your site listing. 

     You can change the Categories your site listing appears in at any time, just go to the Your Site Entries... and click the Modify the Site Entry Details... link, then follow the instructions provided.
     
  3. Make sure your site listing has a good Description and Keywords.

     You can change the Description and Keywords of your site listing at any time, just go to the Your Site Entries... and click the Modify the Site Entry Details...  link, then follow the instructions provided.
     
  4. Make sure you own all of the entries for your URL (contact us if this is an issue). 

If you need any further help or assistance then please contact our support department using our Our Contact Form...
 

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How can I install the Site Submission Internet Explorer 8 accelerator?


IE 8 Site Submission Accelerator:



http://www.botcatcher.com/dynamic_accelerator.aspx



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How can I make 'Bot Catcher' my browsers Search Provider?


Search Provider:



http://www.botcatcher.com/open_search_service_description.aspx



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How can I make 'Bot Catcher' my Home Page?


If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer then just Click Here!

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How can I view 'Bot Catcher' in a window (for aesthetic reasons)?


Just Click Here!!

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How much does it cost to register?


Registration is FREE.

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I have forgotten my Password?


If you have forgotten your Password then a reminder can sent to your email address by using the Change Your Password...



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Privacy Statement?


Privacy Statement
Any information you provide us with will be stored securely, as required by the Data Protection Acts of 1994 and 1998, will be password protected, and will not be sold or traded to third parties.

Disclaimer  
Our Websites... contain links to many other Websites. Our Websites... declaim responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of other linked Websites provided through or on Our Websites.... The privacy practices and content of any third party materials should be determined individually.

Government authorities and legal rights
If requested or required by government authorities, such as law enforcement authorities, courts, or regulators, or otherwise to comply with the law, we may disclose any information we have about our users or modify other practices described in this policy, such as how long and in what form we keep information. We also may disclose information collected about you in order to exercise or protect legal rights or defend against legal claims.


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Support Information?


We may ask you to reference information on this page when resolving queries regarding our services

Server Information

Name: Bot Catcher

URL: http://www.botcatcher.com/

Date: 19 May 2012
 
Time: 12:40:04


Client Information

Display Name:

ID: 0

Agent: CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)

Host: 38.107.179.220


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Terms & Conditions?


Terms of Use


You should review these terms of use ("Terms of Use") carefully prior to using Our Websites.... By using Our Websites..., you agree to be bound by the provisions contained in these Terms of Use. We may amend these Terms of Use from time to time without notice to you, and you agree to be bound by any such amendments. Therefore, you should review these Terms of Use each time you use Our Websites.... If these Terms of Use or any amendments are unacceptable, you must discontinue your use of Our Websites... immediately. As used in these Terms of Use, "we" and "our" refer to ... and its derivatives. References to "Our Websites..." includes, where applicable, any content, products, and services contained on Our Websites....

General


We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue Our Websites... at any time for any or no reason with or without notice to you.

You agree to use Our Websites... only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of Our Websites.... Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within Our Websites....

Ownership


All materials contained on Our Websites...s including but not limited to text, images, and graphics are protected under applicable laws relating to intellectual property rights, such as copyright, patent, and trademark laws. No part of Our Websites... may be reproduced, copied, modified, republished, or transmitted in any manner by any means without our written permission. You shall not modify Our Websites... or sell, lease, loan, distribute or create any derivative works from it.

Warranties and Liability Disclaimer


To the maximum extent permitted by law, Our Websites... disclaims all warranties, express or implied, relating to the content or services available on or accessible through the Our Websites... site, including any implied term of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and any term relating to the provision of services to a standard of reasonable care and skill or to non-infringement of any intellectual property right.

Under no circumstances will Our Websites... be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise):

  1. Loss of data.
  2. Loss of revenue or anticipated profits.
  3. Loss of business.
  4. Loss of opportunity.
  5. Loss of goodwill or injury to reputation.
  6. Losses suffered by third parties.
  7. Any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of Our Websites... regardless of the form of action.

Contributions


In the act of submitting any contribution to Our Websites...;

  1. you agree to grant Our Websites... a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in Our Websites... Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to Our Websites... the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution.
     
  2. you warrant that your contribution;

    1. is your own original work.
    2. you have the right to make it available to Our Websites... for all the purposes specified above
    3. is not defamatory.
    4. does not infringe any law.
       
  3. indemnify Our Websites... against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Our Websites... as a result of your breach of the above warranty.
     
  4. you waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on Our Websites... and the purposes specified above.



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What is 'Bot Catcher'?


'Bot Catcher' is a Neural Net based Internet Search Engine focusing on British sites.

'Bot Catcher' uses The-Arena (Daemonlinks Core) Technology to combine both a high speed Structured Directory Search and a thorough Web Crawl. We use custom developed neural network based Spider bots, to read web pages and transfer meta-information into our Categorised Web Directory. The directory is made up of 68,873 Categories, clustered in a structured hierarchy, and currently contains 287,011 detailed sites listings. 

Our Application Service Provision (ASP) comprises of a large group of SOAP compliant Web Services which are used to create dynamic embedded content on our clients' sites.
 
We use a custom developed neural network (1/(1+e-sx)) based algorithms to structure and rank web site meta data, collected by twenty independent spider bots.

Some History:
The-Arena (originally the Arena BBS dial up service) started life in 1980 as a directory of bulletin board systems based in Britain. Our first service ran on an ICL Perq 1 (which we still have safely stored away) and was accessed only through dial up, using an acoustic coupler running at 300 baud (300 bits per second).  In 1988 we borrowed some space on a Prime computer based in Oxfordshire and managed to get a JIP on the Janet network where we stayed until 1992 when we moved to CompuServe.  In September 2000 because our directory had evolved in to a directory of URLs we decided it was time to buy a domain name and become ‘The-Arena’ …

One of the core philosophies of Our Founder (Mr Andrew H. Cooper) was (and remains) that ‘The-Arena should enhance his life and the lives of others by filtering out the crap’… For the past three decades our Search Engine has remained the 'crap filter of choice' for those suffering from information overload. We have evolved driven by the changing requirements of our discerning users.
 

Notes: Sites whether listed in the Directory or suggested by the Search Engine are selected because they are predominantly British in nature. Both the Directory listings and Search results are ordered by popularity. By default each of the 68,873 categories display the Top 50 most popular sites within it, and its children

Popularity
is automatically calculated by frequency of use and a weighted node based neural algorithm. You can add Sites to the Search Engine and Directory using the Site Entry Creator... To contact us use Our Contact Form....

'Bot Catcher' is currently receiving:

  • an average of 8,000,000 Hits Per Month.
  • an average of 28 Search Requests Per Minute.
  • an average of 1,200,000 Unique Visitors Per Month.

'Bot Catcher' can be found at the following locations:

The Term "Our Websites" includes but is not restricted to the following list of URLs:



 



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Where are the sites I created?


Your Site Entries...



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