May
11
Looks like Yahoo is fetching CSS files
Filed Under Yahoo
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.