A new visitor from Google?

Hopefully the unblocking agent!

[makemetop]

Not in Brett's files. I wonder if anyone else has seen this...

64-208-38-2.google.com - - [11/Jan/2001:16:53:38 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 20848 "-" "Java1.2.2"
64-208-38-2.google.com - - [11/Jan/2001:16:53:39 -0500] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 204 "-" "Java1.2.2"

and what might it be doing?

[Fusioneer]

I was visited by the same IP/UA after an email to [e-mail],see my post here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

In my case I am 99% sure it was a google employee surfing from a linux box - it did not get robots.txt and retrieved images, flash etc. and browsed for a couple of minutes like a human surfer.

Yours has a different UA however...hmmm

Hope this helps.

[makemetop]

Thanks.

However, as you can see, this acted like a spider. No graphics etc were picked up and the UA is very strange. It is obviously related to Google Technical as this too occured shortly after an e-mail to [e-mail].

[JonB]

Maybe after you send them e-mail asking about your positions etc they send out "special" spider who visits faster and not like regular Google spider bot. What were your questions to google- about your listing?

[Fusioneer]

I was emailing them about the GOOGLEBOT NOARCHIVE tag affecting results, ie. very few results in top 10 without Cached version of page.

Spiders also don't eat cookies - which this visitor did. My opinion is that it was a Google employee (in my case). I'm sure it was no coincidence after an email to [e-mail] .