The BumbleBee Garage Web 2.0 Automotive Search Engine
How It Works

For any webmasters wondering why they may see our bot or page referals in their stats logs, we hope this will explain how it all works.

If you are seeing traffic from our administrative pages, then your website is being reviewed for inclusion in our automotive search engine.

We never expected to have a fully automated search engine. The primary approval process to include websites will be done manually by authorized volunteers. We don't let just anyone review websites. They must have a background in the automotive industry as well as some web experience. We look for interns from colleges and people that want to learn more about the internet while contributing to one of the biggest 2.0 projects online.

We demand that they understand what they are reviewing and have the ability to recognize a web feed from unique content. To notice what is advertising and what is actual articles within a page.

To assist in the process our main bot will prequalify websites based on an initial crawl of about 50 pages. The sites are presented to reviewers who with decide to include or exclude the site from the index.

In the event they include the website, they will rate the site on a scale of 1 to 10 in different categories. The average of the score will serve as our base page rank to weight the site in our keywords searches. Since our page rank is not based on any particular page but on the overall website and a human review it should be a positive benchmark for search results.

To assist the site reviewers and speed up the process a series of automated tools can be accessed that will crawl your website creating a sitemap to find hidden pages, counting text on pages and the number of ads being accessed from programs like google adsense or overture.

You can block the automated tools by disallowing our bot from your site. The automated tools will not obey a crawl delay because they are manually activated. The user agent will be "SmartyBot 2.0 Analytics" which will be different that the standard SmartyBot Crawler and the refering page will likely be one of the administrative pages that is not accessible by the general public.

It can be frustrating getting referals from password protected pages, but it is necessary in this process of evaluating websites.

If you are seeing traffic from our administrative pages, then your website is being reviewed for inclusion in our automotive search engine.

Once the site is included by a reviewer our primary automated bot will be free to crawl your pages, hopefully once a month to update all the pages in our index.