New service added

Hello pingers,

A new service will be pinged by Pingoat. It's called HolyCowDude and it is a search engine which crawls your blog for new posts.



After each ping, you will have the HolyCowDude/0.1 Feeds Searcher on your website crawling for feeds in just 1-2 minutes. If you don't want him there, and if you are not into getting traffic on your website, you can change your robots.txt file and dissalow the Cow's access, but if you want to get more people on your blog, keep pinging on each post update.

Also, we received notices that some webservices aren't responding and we should update the list. We are handling this problem right now, and we came up with a solution:

Each time a service doesn't respond, we use a counter. If the number of errors is huge compared with the numbers of pings (40%), we remove the service.

We undestand that some servers might have problems but we want to improve your experience with Pingoat and provide faster services. That's why we will remove the ones which don't respond on most of the requests sent from the goat.

Enjoy!