Confirmation Needed: Do any search engine crawlers accept cookies?

[SharieBags]

I'm looking for confirmation here.  Do any search engine crawlers accept cookies?  I thought that the answer was always no, but we're looking in our weblogs and seeing some odd behavior.

[Brother22]

The answer for all major search engines is no. There are some third party crawlers that have been created that do accept cookies. If you are using a site crawler to examine your site you might want to check to see if there is a cookie recognition function in the algo. Usually you can select to accept or ignore cookies though an internal site crawl but Google and Bing do not accept them.