Bot intelligence record
Teoma
Review firstTeoma is a search crawler from Ask / Teoma used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness; it appears in server logs as `Teoma`.
- Operator
- Ask / Teoma
- Family
- Teoma
- Source type
- Observed
- Last checked
- 2026-06-22
User-Agent Pattern
Ask / TeomaTeoma
User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.
Robots.txt Snippet
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Handling Guidance
DependsUse this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.
Teoma is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- Ask / Teoma
- Family
- Teoma
- Purpose
- Search Indexing
- Identity type
- Documented
- Confidence
- Medium
- Last verified
- 2026-06-22
- Last checked
- 2026-06-22
- Source type
- Observed
- Verification
- Verify Teoma by matching `Teoma` to Ask / Teoma evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- Teoma has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
Notes
- Teoma is a search crawler from Ask / Teoma used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
Teoma; related patterns includeteoma; Ask Jeeves crawler. - Teoma is not independently verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Documented, and the evidence basis is observed traffic patterns and user-agent evidence.
- Teoma does not have confirmed robots.txt behavior in the available public evidence.
- Teoma should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Evidence and Source
- Verify Teoma by matching `Teoma` to Ask / Teoma evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Teoma traffic is primarily detected by the `Teoma` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `teoma; Ask Jeeves crawler`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Ask / Teoma infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Teoma is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Teoma has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
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