AlexK - 7:02 pm on Feb 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

jomaxx:

... may have the update occurring a month or two more from now then I have to ask, Is this predictive at all?

Exactly what I am trying to find out!

Early config errors on my site have cost me dearly with Google (>50% drop overnight at G-Update, more than once) with a *very* slow recovery following fixture. That history, plus the "Here be dragons" nature of Google mapping-topography for webmasters, cause me to treat any hard facts on the current G-nature as gold-dust.

The original title to this thread (the mod changed it) was expressed as a question. The thread is intended as a call for evidence. Are other webmasters experiencing fast, or deep, or extensive G-Bot crawls? If the answer is increasingly "Yes", and history repeats itself, then we have another smidgen of truth about G and it's nature.

If you know that the storm is coming, you can batten down the hatches, and perhaps save yourself from sinking.