May
11
Looks like Yahoo is fetching CSS files
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There were reports by people several years ago that Alta Vista’s Scooter was seen to be grabbing CSS files when crawling sites. The specifics were posted in a WebmasterWorld thread back in 2002:
Alta Vista is looking at style sheets
Now it seems that Yahoo (who acquired AV a couple of years ago) is doing it. You can see signs of it when doing a site:example.com search at Yahoo. The URL for the stylesheet will appear at the end of the site’s listings, and will be a URL-only listing with no cache.