AboutUs is a website directory wiki, with a confusing exlusion policy - while websites are freely included when spidered, their entries cannot be removed. AboutUs is widely considered a useless, non-contributory spam site, with high levels of spam search engine results.
Unlike popular wiki's such as Wikipedia, AboutUs is a for profit website, rather than a charitable organisation.
The AboutUs bot can be blocked by adding the following line in a websites robots.txt file, although there are claims that the AboutUsBot will not follow these instructions.
User-agent: AboutUsBot
Disallow: /
AboutUs uses the domain aboutus.org.
AboutUs is part of a class of websites profiting from the work of others, by indexing and publishing limited content from each website they list. With an automated process, this makes it very easy to quickly create a large number of pages. Other websites include domaintools.com, builtwith.com, and websiteoutlook.com.
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About the author
Nick Johnston is a self employed computing consultant, working in several facets
of the IT industry. With an initial interest in business and computer security,
his roles have spread to many other areas.
Nick is currently available for project and contract work - contact Nick for more information.