🤖 Overview

Seeker is a web crawler operated by LookSeek LLC, a privacy-focused search engine launched in 2019 that emphasizes user anonymity and does not track or store search histories. The bot indexes web pages specifically for the LookSeek search engine, which positions itself as an alternative to mainstream search engines by avoiding behavioral profiling and ad-based monetization. According to official documentation on lookseek.com, the Seeker crawler follows standard web protocols and is designed to collect publicly available content to populate LookSeek’s search index.

🌐 Technical Behavior

Seeker performs regular, systematic crawls of web pages using a standard HTTP/1.1 and HTTPS stack, sending requests from IP addresses within the range 45.79.0.0/16 and 104.237.128.0/18, as reported by third-party bot-tracking services like ibot.cc and crawler-detector.com. The crawler respects a crawl-delay directive of 10 seconds when specified in robots.txt, but by default issues requests at a moderate pace of roughly one request every 3–5 seconds to avoid overwhelming servers. It does not support JavaScript rendering and only parses static HTML content, similar to many early-generation search engine bots. Seeker also sends a Referer header with value https://lookseek.com/ in all requests, which can be used to identify its traffic in server logs.

📋 robots.txt Compliance

LookSeek’s official documentation states that Seeker fully honors the Robots Exclusion Protocol, including Disallow and Allow directives, as well as Crawl-Delay values. A technical support page on lookseek.com/crawler confirms that the bot reads robots.txt at the start of each crawl session and rechecks it at intervals of no more than 24 hours. However, some webmaster forums have reported that Seeker occasionally ignores noindex meta tags when they are absent from robots.txt, though LookSeek has not officially acknowledged this behavior.

🔍 Detection Indicators

The primary User-Agent string is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Seeker/1.0; +https://lookseek.com/crawler). A secondary variant Seeker/1.0 (compatible; LookSeek; +https://lookseek.com/bot) has also been observed. Additional fingerprints include a fixed Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml header and a Connection: close header on each request. The bot does not set a custom X-Robots-Tag but respects HTTP response headers indicating crawl limitations.

📊 Data Usage

Collected data is used exclusively to build and update the LookSeek search index, which serves search results without tracking users or storing personal information. LookSeek’s privacy policy states that raw crawled content is temporarily cached for indexing purposes and then discarded; no data is used for AI training, advertising, or third-party sharing. The index is publicly queryable via the LookSeek search engine at lookseek.com.

⚙️ Rate Limiting Policy

Seeker is rate-limited by default to prevent excessive load on origin servers, as it does not implement exponential backoff for heavy sites. Webmasters are advised to set a Crawl-Delay directive or use IP-based throttling (e.g., 10 requests per minute) for the Seeker IP ranges to ensure fair resource allocation without blocking the bot entirely.

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