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by RyanONeill1970 4348 days ago
If their web spider is any indication of how fit they are, they really need to shape up.

The Baidu spider is the IE6 of web bots, it hammers sites, fumbles around breaking everything with its crap JavaScript compiler and causing so many errors that it's easier to just block it. The same with Yandex.

I really hope they fix it, but a search for the Baidu user agent will show a lot of results just wanting to block it. They need to fix that.