About this bot
Teoma is an automated identity associated with Ask / Teoma and used for historical Ask/Teoma web-search indexing.
The primary recorded identity signal is Teoma. Representative HTTP identity: Teoma.
Directory status: Legacy. Identity classification: Verified with Medium confidence. Identity type: verified-legacy.
This record is retained for historical log identification and should not be treated as a current active service identity.
Risk classification: Legacy. Recommended handling: depends.
How to identify this bot
- Also known as
- teoma; Ask Jeeves crawler
Details
- Kind
- Legacy search crawler
- Family
- Teoma
- Purpose
- Legacy search indexing
- Common Use
- historical Ask/Teoma web-search indexing
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- verified-legacy
- Evidence Method
- Retain the Teoma marker for historical log analysis; do not treat this record as a current Ask search-crawler authentication mechanism.
- Detection Notes
- Teoma is a historical Ask/Ask Jeeves crawler identity retained for legacy recognition rather than current active crawling.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# Historical identity retained for log recognition; no current robots.txt behavior is asserted.- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Teoma" bot_match- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Teoma") { set $bot_match 1; }