diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/spiders/generic.py b/scrapy/contrib/spiders/generic.py
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index a9fff299e..000000000
--- a/scrapy/contrib/spiders/generic.py
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@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
-from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
-
-class GenericSpider(CrawlSpider):
-    """
-    This generic crawler crawls an entire site. It can also be used as a default crawler
-    (see setting "DEFAULT_SPIDER")
-    """
-    
-    def __init__(self, domain_name):
-        self.domain_name = domain_name
-        self.rules = (
-            Rule(SgmlLinkExtractor(allow_domains=(domain_name,)), self.parse_note, follow=True),
-        )
-        super(GenericSpider, self).__init__()
-        
-    def parse_note(self, response):
-        pass
-
-# not a singleton