trendictionbot

trendictionbot is a web crawler operated by the market intelligence company Trendiction. The bot crawls public websites, including news sites and blogs, to gather content for Trendiction's search and data services. It identifies itself with a detailed user-agent string like Mozilla/5.0 (...) trendictionbot0.5.0; (...). The bot is designed to be efficient, using techniques like gzip compression and conditional requests to minimize its impact on the websites it crawls.

trendictionbot is crawling your website to index its content for Trendiction's public search engine and to provide data to its business clients for market research and marketing. The frequency of visits depends on your site's content update schedule and its relevance to Trendiction's services. This crawling is generally considered an authorized activity for a public website, as the bot is part of a legitimate data service.

The purpose of trendictionbot is to populate Trendiction's public search engine and to provide structured data to its business clients. For these clients, the data offers valuable insights into market trends and consumer sentiment. For website owners, the potential benefits include increased visibility in Trendiction's search engine, which can drive traffic, and having your content included in market research reports, which can increase your site's influence in its industry.

To prevent trendictionbot from accessing your website, you can add a specific disallow rule to your robots.txt file. This is the standard method for managing access for web crawlers.

To block this bot, add the following lines to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: trendictionbot
Disallow: /