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Motorola smartphones detected as robot due to "motor" pattern #58

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@mdio

Hi!
A Motorola Edge 30 for example has the user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; motorola edge 30 Build/T1RD33.116-33-3; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/113.0.5672.132 Mobile Safari/537.36

because that inevitably matches the term "motor" it's flagged as a robot.

I did a bit of digging to figure out where this term might come from and found this entry on robotstxt.org.
According to this it's from a web crawler from 1996 "to build the database for the www.webindex.de".
Today www.webindex.de redirects to www.cybercon.de, the owners of it and it seems that a soft redirect was already put in place at the end of 2004 (according to http://web.archive.org/web/20041129080254/www.webindex.de).

So I think it's safe to say that this project is not around for almost 20 years now and the string can be removed from the list.

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