Mediapartners-Google

new crawler from G?

[keyplyr]

First time I've seen this:

64.68.87.69 - - [15/Oct/2003:06:50:51 -0700] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 903 "-" "Mediapartners-Google/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"

[mack]

generaly thats the bot that spiders your pages containing adsense code on them.

It is used to determine page content so they can deliver targeted adverts.

Mack.

[Jenstar]

If you don't run AdSense on that site, it can also be from Opera users who are displaying AdSense ads.

[keyplyr]

Ah... thanks.

<added> So Opera users spoof the Googlebot UA and request robots.txt on people's websites? I always was a bit suspicious of those Opera users! :)

[ams_david]

Opera isn't spoofing (I don't think).

If google ads are enabled in Opera, every time a user goes to a new page, a notice is sent to google with that page's address. If google has no cache of the page, then MediaPartners robot shows up to analyize the page for contextual advertising.

[keyplyr]

Thanks for clearing that up ams_david.

Opera is the WAP browser for my mobile phone, but not the web browser for my computer.