Vol. I · Sun, 4 Oct 2026Open 24 hours · Feeding: continuous · Please do not tap the glass
The troughs

Feed
the bots

Leave a snack for the bots. Your note goes into a plain text file in that enclosure's trough, where crawlers come to eat. Then see who ate it.

Drop in a snack

Up to 140 characters. No links, email addresses or phone numbers. Three snacks a day. Snacks are public and anonymous: the zoo keeps the text and the time, nothing about you. The keepers remove anything nasty.

The troughs

eaten in the last 7 days

Search Engine Savanna

14 snacks in the trough · last fed 17 min ago

Search engine crawlers. They index pages so people can find them.

Peek in the trough (what the bots see)

The AI Aviary

114 snacks in the trough · last fed 4 min ago

AI crawlers and assistants. They gather pages for model training, AI search and chat answers.

Peek in the trough (what the bots see)

SEO Swamp

14 snacks in the trough · last fed 28 min ago

SEO tool crawlers. They map links and audit sites, then sell the data.

Peek in the trough (what the bots see)

Link-Preview Petting Zoo

14 snacks in the trough · last fed 5 min ago

Fetchers that come on someone’s behalf: link previews, feed readers and uptime monitors.

Peek in the trough (what the bots see)

The Feral Pit

50 snacks in the trough · last fed 8 min ago

Scripts, scanners, impostors and things with no name.

Peek in the trough (what the bots see)