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Mediapartners-Google/2.1grabbing a 3.8 MB MP3 file?

         

rfgdxm1

9:47 pm on Oct 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Yep, it just did that. First strange part is doing some research this looks like the Adsense bot. This is a smallish amateur site that has nothing to do with Adsense. Also odd to see a bot grab an entire MP3, but my logs say that is what it did. I used to get paranoid by all the Googlebot activity my sites got, until I just realized that's the way Google is. I'll just assume this little critter got lost and ended up on my site. Still, odd.

Jenstar

10:07 pm on Oct 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

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The Adsense mediabot will spider pages that do not run AdSense when a visitor is using the Opera browser (the bot will then visit so it can show the visitor targeted ads for that page. I wonder if there is something in how Opera handles running an MP3 that would send the mediabot off to that URL, thinking it is a page, and not an mp3 file.