157.56.93.84 - - [25/Nov/2013:08:47:04 -0400] "GET /manual/sc/jp/index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 5546 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)"…looks like the Bing web search engine's web crawler robot just came by to confirm that I haven't changed the Japanese translation of the GEOS-SC documentation's top page. Bingbot only checked 170 pages that day. You may recall that it used to crawl absurdly more pages; I kinda made fun of it, crawling my site so assiduously though I rarely change the site. This raises the question: how often do I change it? I tried counting the unique dates on which I changed files on this site. That's not a perfect way to count this. The Daily Nonsense page, of course, updates each day. But my quick-and-dirty counting method doesn't notice that: it only notices that the page changed today. Anyhow: from late 1999 to late 2012, I see 1113 file modification dates. That's about 85 days per year, once or twice a week. That's not so often, by computer speeds.
I think we can all agree that Bingbot needs to relax.
