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Googlebot trying my search form?

Seeing many searches by googlebot

         

johnnie

3:05 pm on Dec 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Hello, in my textpattern referral logs I am seeing the following:

<snip>
14 dec 2007 04:51:11 66.249.65.236 crawl-&#8203;66-&#8203;249-&#8203;65-&#8203;236.&#8203;googlebot.&#8203;com?&#8203;q=rovers&&#8203;results=1 GET 200
14 dec 2007 04:49:24 66.249.65.236 crawl-&#8203;66-&#8203;249-&#8203;65-&#8203;236.&#8203;googlebot.&#8203;com?&#8203;q=uitziet GET 200
14 dec 2007 04:47:42 66.249.65.236 crawl-&#8203;66-&#8203;249-&#8203;65-&#8203;236.&#8203;googlebot.&#8203;com?&#8203;q=pluto GET 200
14 dec 2007 04:45:59 66.249.65.236 crawl-&#8203;66-&#8203;249-&#8203;65-&#8203;236.&#8203;googlebot.&#8203;com?&#8203;q=barbara GET 200
14 dec 2007 04:44:18 66.249.65.236 crawl-&#8203;66-&#8203;249-&#8203;65-&#8203;236.&#8203;googlebot.&#8203;com?&#8203;q=viert GET 200
14 dec 2007 04:42:35 66.249.65.236 crawl-&#8203;66-&#8203;249-&#8203;65-&#8203;236.&#8203;googlebot.&#8203;com?&#8203;q=ontdekt GET 200
14 dec 2007 04:40:54 66.249.65.236 crawl-&#8203;66-&#8203;249-&#8203;65-&#8203;236.&#8203;googlebot.&#8203;com?&#8203;q=russische GET 200
14 dec 2007 04:39:12 66.249.65.236 crawl-&#8203;66-&#8203;249-&#8203;65-&#8203;236.&#8203;googlebot.&#8203;com?&#8203;q=uitstrekt GET 200
14 dec 2007 04:37:29 66.249.65.236 crawl-&#8203;66-&#8203;249-&#8203;65-&#8203;236.&#8203;googlebot.&#8203;com?&#8203;q=periodieke GET 200
14 dec 2007 04:34:05 66.249.65.236 crawl-&#8203;66-&#8203;249-&#8203;65-&#8203;236.&#8203;googlebot.&#8203;com?&#8203;q=afneemt
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And a LOT more searches. Since when does googlebot use your search to find content? Can I use these keywords as a 'tip' from google for which keywords it needs more relevant content?

Tastatura

3:39 pm on Dec 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



To the best of my knowledge googlebot will not just try to insert (random) search terms in your form and perform searches (as humans do). If in fact this is googlebot [webmasterworld.com] then it's simply looking up urls found someplace else on the net. Someone either made links to your site using these search terms, or someone/something is feeding those urls to G.