Googlebot following my surfing behavior!?

[turbohost]

Hi Guys,

I was building a stats script for some of my brandnew sites and I noticed something really astonishing ... a googlebot following my surfing behavior! Is this common practice by Google or should I panic? :-> I'm running Firefox as a browser (no plugins installed). I replaced my own IP address with x.x.x.x.

crawl-66-249-65-15.googlebot.com --> /article/12645/NTT.html
x.x.x.x --> /article/12645/NTT.html
crawl-66-249-65-15.googlebot.com --> /browse/n/0.html
crawl-66-249-65-15.googlebot.com --> /browse/n/0.html
x.x.x.x --> /browse/n/0.html
crawl-66-249-65-15.googlebot.com --> /search.html
crawl-66-249-65-15.googlebot.com --> /linkexchange.html
x.x.x.x --> /search.html
crawl-66-249-65-15.googlebot.com --> /linkexchange.html
x.x.x.x --> /linkexchange.html
x.x.x.x --> /

[johnnyc]

If you run AdSense I think Google will spider the pages once it knows about them. By visiting your pages you may have been telling Google that the pages exist. If you don't run AdSence then I have no idea.

[quotations]

The toolbar also tells them about the page if you are running that.

[turbohost]

It's got to be Adsense ...

[netscan]

I noticed this as well while tailing my access log, the bot would "follow" my visitors around. Trippy!

[zCat]

It's got to be Adsense ...

Yup, that's typical MediaBot behavior. To the OP: try modifying your tracking script to show the User Agent; that will give you a definite answer.