Re: Gnews2Rss closing down

If anyone's interested, I've just been trawling though the stats.
What's disappointing is just how few aggregators set the user agent or 
referrer. 99% of the hits have neither set.

What's amusing is the sheer range of terms people are using to search 
Google News.

October
-------
5.8M hits
35Gb of data outgoing

User Agents last 3 days
-----------------------
1)      334514  none
2)      5949    MagpieRSS/0.61 (+http://magpierss.sf.net)
3)      4144    Bloglines/2.0 (http://www.bloglines.com; 1 subscriber)
4)      1625    MagpieRSS/0.51 (+http://magpierss.sf.net)
5)      1303    Bloglines/2.0 (http://www.bloglines.com; 2 subscribers)
6)      1297    RssReader/1.0.72.0 (http://www.rssreader.com)
7)      1119    NewsGatorOnline/2.0 (http://www.newsgator.com)
8)      1059    JetBrains Omea Reader 1.0.1 
(http://www.jetbrains.com/omea_reader/)
9)      751     Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1; 
aggregator:Rojo; http://rojo.org/) Gecko/20021130
10)     575     NetNewsWire/2.0b3 (Mac OS X; Lite; 
http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/)
11)     533     YahooFeedSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; 
http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html; users...
12)     452     Bloglines/2.0 (http://www.bloglines.com; 3 subscribers)
13)     341     Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; IE 5.5; Windows 98)
14)     319     NetNewsWire/2.0b3 (Mac OS X; 
http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/)
15)     308     YahooFeedSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; 
http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html; users...
16)     275     NewsGator/2.0 (http://www.newsgator.com; Microsoft 
Windows NT 5.1.2600.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322.2032)
17)     250     RssReader/1.0.88.0 (http://www.rssreader.com) Microsoft 
Windows NT 5.1.2600.0
18)     242     YahooFeedSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; 
http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html; users...
19)     228     YahooFeedSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; 
http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html; users...
20)     221     SharpReader/0.9.4.1 (.NET CLR 1.1.4322.573; WinNT 
5.1.2600.0)
21)     199     Bloglines/2.0 (http://www.bloglines.com; 4 subscribers)
22)     196     RssReader/1.0.88.0 (http://www.rssreader.com) Microsoft 
Windows NT 5.0.2195.0
23)     181     FeedDemon/1.11 (http://www.bradsoft.com/; Microsoft 
Windows XP)
24)     178     NetNewsWire/1.0.8 (Mac OS X; Lite; 
http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/)
25)     177     YahooFeedSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; 
http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html; users...
26)     175     FeedOnFeeds/0.1.2 
(+http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/)
27)     156     YahooFeedSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; 
http://my.yahoo.com/s/publishers.html; users...
28)     153     SharpReader/0.9.5.1 (.NET CLR 1.1.4322.573; WinNT 
5.1.2600.0)
29)     141     Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
30)     138     Feedroll.com (Magpie v0.61)


Google News Search terms last 3 days
------------------------------------
breast-enhancement
weight loss
Travel
florida election result 2004
%Pilates%
alternative medicine
usa presidential election poll
phuket-thailand
travel
number_of_items&q=presidential voting
phuket
presidental election lesson plan
election lesson plan president
%DOG%
%CHRISTIAN%
Vacation
satellite tv
election day lesson plan
Mesothelioma
voting and election lesson plan
bangkok
employee
1000 island rental vacation
thailand
Diabetes
us presidential election poll
election lesson mock plan
Tourist
orange county florida supervisor of election

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