GoogleGuy - 5:52 pm on Aug 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

msgraph, I agree. My personal opinion is that if toolbar data could improve our search without hurting or affecting users, then it's a good idea to look at that data. Our toolbar policies notify users that we may use the data to improve our search quality (any data would still be anonymous of course).

As of this posting, however, it is a coincidence if a googlebot crawled a site/page soon after someone visited it. When I was in school they discussed types of logical fallacies, such as "post hoc." A Google search returns fun results, but it basically just means that an event follows another event in time, so you assume that the first event caused the second event. So if it rained the last three times after I washed my car, it's wrong to assume that washing my car caused it to rain. Right now, the same thing goes for toolbar and googlebot. :)