Yahoo IP with

Mediapartners-Google/2.1 Agent?

[jim_w]

Is this someone spoofing?

bff102.search.scd.yahoo.com - - [22/Dec/2004:07:33:49 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 31206 "" "Mediapartners-Google/2.1"
bff103.search.scd.yahoo.com - - [22/Dec/2004:07:33:49 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 31206 "" "Mediapartners-Google/2.1"

My other log shows..

A visitor from bff103.search.scd.yahoo.com (66.94.233.50)
arrived without a referring URL,
and visited Home Page
at 06:33:49 AM on Wednesday, December 22, 2004.
This visitor used Mediapartners-Google/2.1.

A visitor from bff102.search.scd.yahoo.com (66.94.233.49)
arrived without a referring URL,
and visited Home Page
at 06:33:48 AM on Wednesday, December 22, 2004.
This visitor used Mediapartners-Google/2.1.

A visitor from bff101.search.scd.yahoo.com (66.94.233.48)
arrived without a referring URL,
and visited Home Page
at 06:33:45 AM on Wednesday, December 22, 2004.
This visitor used Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1).

[pendanticist]

Mediapartners-Google/2.1 [google.com] has been mentioned several times in the past.

whois says 66.94.233.48 does belong to Google.

<added>
whois says 66.94.233.48 does belong to Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoo!
</added>

( Had Google on the brain there for a second. ;o )

[edited by: pendanticist at 5:37 pm (utc) on Dec. 22, 2004]

[werty]

Could that be Yahoo! (hand)checking to see if the site is cloaking anything special to mediabot?

[jcoronella]

There are SEO's that work at Yahoo too...

[jim_w]

Could be a spammy SEO sending me a message that they can such down my site, which they have done before, and I can't do anything about it. But their 'treeing up the wrong bark' ;-)) and adding traffic to my site :-)

[jim_w]

Ok, here is some more information…

Note that page #*$!.html contains adsense ads.

I had a visitor from bff204.search.dcn.yahoo.com (216.155.200.234)
with a referrer from babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
and a UA of Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FDM)
that visited my page xxx.html

the very next entry was visitor had no referrer
from bff204.search.dcn.yahoo.com (216.155.200.234)
with a UA of Mediapartners-Google/2.1
that visited my page xxx.html

[volatilegx]

Ah ha!

So it could be the Mediaptners-Google/2.1 agent viewing the page through the Babelfish translator proxy?

Interesting, very interesting!

[jim_w]

Yea, but, via altavista?

(just how many SE names can I get into one log line?) ;-))

[volatilegx]

Remember that AltaVista is now owned by Yahoo

[jim_w]

Actually I know that. Duh! Well, that explains everything.

Thanks