incrediBILL - 7:41 pm on Jul 2, 2006 (gmt 0)

Not at my customer risk and when it comes to a general tracking tool I have not see anyone doing this. I rather go 100 bots unnoticed that troubling my one customer/visitor.

I would suggest redefining the concept of "customer risk" as allowing a 3rd party to use your own information against you in the search engines allows customers to find THEM before they find YOU. This happens every day, it's what AdSense has caused by incentivizing scraper sites to spam the search engines.

Besides, out of 15K visitors a day, less than 100 typically get challenged for behaving like a robot and most of them turn out to be robots.

Trust me, I don't want to annoy my customers either, and try to minimize it, but when you've had your big cash keywords hijacked a couple of times by AdSense scrapers or have been redirect hijacked by a proxy server, you'll be singing a different tune.