Googlebot visit with Mozilla Agent

Googlebot visit with Mozilla Agent - what does it mean?

[earlscourt1]

Hi,

I received a visit from a *.googlebot.com (64.68.*) IP with a Mozilla Agent. The IP usually identifies itself with the usual Googlebot UA.

The agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/2003070

I was wondering if someone has an insight on what does it mean. Is someone physically looking at my site? Or is this probably a UA cloaking test, throwing random UA to see if my site changes?

I do cloak for optimized delivery per country. Several countries depending on IP receive a different copy of my site. I also give the english version to googlebot.

Hope this won't get me banned. Looking forward to any responses.

earlscourt1

[volatilegx]

More than likely, it's somebody in the Googleplex doing some innocent surfing.

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

[Bulk99]

I get hits like this in a repeating pattern, it sure doesn't look like "innocent surfing". Spam detecting bot maybe, I don't know.

[volatilegx]

Bulk99, can you describe the pattern? Care to share details?