Googlebot crawling rather fast

On the nippy side.

[andye]

Hi folks - we've just seen well over 1500 hits from Googlebot in the last 35 minutes. It's nothing we can't cope with, but I'd rather they went a little slower. Anyone else having the same problem?

It's almost entirely coming from 66.249.64.14, with a few from 66.249.71.3.

I thought I'd highlight it here as afaik Google don't generally go this fast. Wondered if there's a bug afoot at the GooglePlex.

Yahoo are giving us a fairly fast crawl at the same time, too... grrr...

All the best, a.