What kind of bot is this and what does it what?

"Mediapartners-Google/2.

[teeceo]

Hi all, I just had this bot""Mediapartners-Google/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)" cwal a page of mine. I never seen him(or her:) before, what does it fo and what did it what on my site?

teeceo.

[mack]

it's related to google news.

Indexes news content... is your site related to this in any way?

[coconutz]

Mediapartners-Google/2.1 [webmasterworld.com]
Spidering by Mediapartners-Google/2.1 [webmasterworld.com]

[Critter]

Doods,

The mediapartners bot indexes pages for the 'content' adwords-type advertising.

For example, Fastclick has a skyscraper 120x600 banner that has Google adwords content for your page. The bot comes by to see what ads should be in there by determining what your page is about.

Peter