The abrave spider uses in-house designed technology that helps the robot make strategic decisions about what pages to follow and index. When the abrave spider does index a page on a website then everything on that page is considered but only relevant parts of the page are saved and indexed in real time producing a highly economical search engine solution with only minimal hardware requirements.
Because of our technology, pages that are saved/indexed are instantly available on our search engine.
The Abrave Spider, is used for indexing websites and fully obeys robot tags and the robots.txt file. To allow the Abrave Spider to visit your site does not require you to do anything different. However, if you do not wish our robot to index your site then you should make an entry in your robots.txt file under 'Abrave Spider'.
As of version 2.3, the Abrave Spider now supports the use of Crawl Delay. The default speed that we use and have always used is 1, however, you may now specify any crawl delay in seconds in the following format: Crawl-Delay: 1. As of release 2.7 (5th March 2010), a correction has been implemented to the Abrave Spider to fix a problem where on occasion disallowed pages listed in the robots.txt files of some websites were still being accessed even though these were correctly not indexed by Abrave.
Latest Fix: Version 5.1 (Released 20th January 2012) Minor changes to the indexing algorithm and information saved from web pages indexed.
Previous Fix: Version 5 (Released 1st December 2011) fixed an error with reading robots.txt files that affected less than 0.01% of websites currently being indexed.
The current IP address of the abrave spiders is: 188.121.50.210.
Philosophy
One thing that has infuriated us about the internet is the philosophy that the more sites that link to your website then the more relevant it must be. There have been many occasions over the years where this method, adopted by the search engines, has resulted in deliberate manipulation.
It is easy to write a search engine where you rank a page based on the amount of other sites that link to it, indeed it has been done by a notable few other well know search engines but the true difficulty is writing one that has real "relevance". Therefore, there has to be something different out there right? There is, Abrave, a brave new way in search. Web pages that should be ranked highly, in our experience, tend to have certain characteristics as do web pages that one would expect to rank lower, will actually rank lower under the Abrave Point Rank™ calculation. Also to some extent what the Abrave Spider discovers on a previously indexed page from website X may affect the ranking of other pages on that website. We are not going to pretend that every method is foolproof and that robot technology is infallible because that is not the case but it certainly is harder to manipulate your ranking on Abrave. For this reason the Abrave Point Rank 101™ ranking algorithm does not consider link popularity when performing the calculation as this type of ranking is often open to abuse through link exchange websites. It should also be noted that this type of software is not too demanding to implement and therefore we may introduce this at some stage but with the popularity score having only a marginal affect on the Point Rank score i.e. it might decide which website should be ranked higher in marginally similar Point Rank scores but we certainly have no plans to ever introduce it to further encourage the ridiculous amount of link exchanging that occurs on the internet. We want to encourage website owners to spend more time in expanding their sites rather than exchanging links with other website owners in an attempt to fool some other search engines. Point Rank 101™ does not really need link popularity statistics to function because sites that are best suited for the top positions have certain characteristics that are identified as part of the many calculations that make up the Point Rank algorithm.
Conclusion
Abrave is not about being able to manipulate your rankings. Sure you can pick up bonus points but for things like having a well designed website and not for having thousands of links from website pages that nobody ever visits. The abrave spider uses an in-house developed robot with an in-house developed ranking system called Point Rank 101™ developed by Gallent Limited. This basically allocates a score of between 0 and 101 to any given keyword based on many different calculations.
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