Greetings - If you're reading this, chances are you've seen our robot visiting your site while looking through your server logs. BebopBot is a linear web crawler owned & operated by A Passion for Jazz! as part of an ongoing effort to develop a niche based searchable Web index. We are not attempting to steal any copyrighted information from your site & will not be re-distributing your content. We will only be allowing users to find your website more easily. The information gathered is being indexed & made available via one or more publicly accessible search utilities.

We don't currently accept URL submissions. We discover and add new sites to our index by link-crawling. Basically you just need to make sure that you allow BebopBot to crawl your site, and then we will need to discover it via links from other sites.

Our software follows W3C standards & supports robots.txt files & robot META tags and X-Robots-Tag HTTP header specifications. These are the standard mechanisms for webmasters to tell a web robot which portions of a site it is welcome to access.

To prohibit BebopBot from indexing any file on your site:

IPv4 address legacy:

128.238.184.241
128.238.184.243
128.238.184.247
128.238.186.22
128.238.186.29
128.238.188.42
128.238.188.47
216.165.92.36
216.165.92.42

BebopBot

BebopBot from any other IPv4 address is a hoax & not us.

Our robot follows Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics:
   1. A robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
   2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
   3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

We intend for our robot to be a polite & unobtrusive netizen & apologize for any bad behavior while visiting your site. To save bandwidth, BebopBot may keep robots.txt file for up to 72 hours after downloading, so it may take a while to learn of any changes. We strongly support the rights of our fellow webmasters & value your input.