AndyA - 4:21 pm on Feb 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

Doesn't Google send out Googlebots that have their User-agent listed as IE or Firefox, and from different IPs, so it can't be identified as having anything to do with Google? Seems to me this would be a very efficient way of identifying fraudulent sites. It doesn't take long to find a site that serves up different pages to Google than it does to a regular browser.

I was always under the impression Google did this. If they do, maybe they need to increase the spidering levels of the spy Googlebots.