hits from google.com

a couple of hits from differnt browsers and operating systems

[matthias]

I just noticed that I get hits from google.com. The hits come from a couple of differnt operating systems and browsers (it's not gooblebot). Anyone noticed something like that? Any hints what it is about?

The site is not even in english and rather small and unimportant so I doubt that employees just having a little fun in the net ;-)

[pendanticist]

Could you post the UA string matthias?

Pendanticist.

[takagi]

Maybe your competitor reported your site as being spammy?

[matthias]

I don't have the exact UA strings right now (they are cleaned up by some regexps) but the cleaned up strings are the following:

- Mozilla 1.3
- Internet Explorer 5.5x
- Netscape 3.x
- Internet Explorer 6.x
- Internet Explorer 5.x
- Internet Explorer 4.x

Plus one verbatim (not edited in any way):

- Not identified

All in all about 200 hits over the last month (nearly every day a couple of hits). I don't cheat (or I'm not aware of it). I'm worried though.

[matthias]

The hits where gone for a couple of days but now I got one again and I have more informations about this hit now:

UA: Python-urllib/2.0a1
VIA: proxy.google.com

Has anybody else seen something like that?

[jdMorgan]

matthias,

That's probably various surfers using the Google Viewer [labs.google.com]. Try it yourself, and see if the signature matches in your logs.

Several of the Google Labs tools use Python.urllib and Java/1.x.

HTH,
Jim

[matthias]

Thanks. That's it.

It would be nice if google could fill the "forwarded for" header out. It just says "unkown".

It doesn't explain the other UAs I got from google.com, though.