Industry-consistent browsers, robots and spiders list

Measurement Guidelines released September 2004 by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) require the IAB to manage, distribute and disseminate a list of valid browsers, known spiders and robots currently active.

The IAB has enlisted ImServices to work with the IAB Policy Board to build, maintain and evolve this database on behalf of the IAB and the industry.

List components include:

• Secure user login for list access
• Two separate lists, both valid browsers and known robots, intended to be utilized in the “double pass” technique as defined in the IAB Guideline
• Documentation on how to “read” files programmatically
• Documentation on methodology of double pass method
• Sample Perl script for efficiently processing of logs using double pass technique

For more detailed information or to sign up for this service, click on the following link to visit the IAB website.
http://www.iab.net/iab_products_and_industry_services/1418/spiders