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Strange Recurring Visitor from Google Employee

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Freedom

7:15 pm on Dec 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Okay, this guy from Google is creeping me out. He keeps visiting my website about twice a week for the last 6 weeks and the url string leaves me with a lot of questions:

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He's not from Adsense or Adwords as this site is not wired into those programs.

The website appeared to be banned after Jagger, so I cleaned it up real nice, got rid of every last bit of SEO on it, including reciprocal link pages. My efforts got the website back into Yahoo after a human review, so I am guessing it's good to go with Google, and my first and last guess is this guy is some sort of banned website inspector - or something. I wasn't doing any black hat stuff, but it might have been over optimized.

Anyone else seen this URL before? What could the pagerendering and deadline stuff mean? Why is my website on a Google deadline?

Thanks for any clarity one can give me - I hate being under the Google spotlight and not knowing why.

Added: His IP is 38.119.128.203 and he's using Netscape 6 with Linux 2 The IP resolves back to a firm called Performance Systems International and they are in New York City.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 8:34 pm (utc) on Dec. 28, 2005]
[edit reason] lets leave the specific ips out [/edit]

g1smd

8:32 pm on Dec 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Probably isn't Google at all, from the IP address.... No idea what it might be though.

Brett_Tabke

8:35 pm on Dec 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

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> Anyone else seen this URL before?

yes - it is a url to a private spot on g...

We try to leave that specific stuff alone, because it does is generate ddos attacks on the ip. (same is true in the ip forum)...(sorry...)

cornwall

8:37 pm on Dec 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

viggen

8:49 pm on Dec 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Yup,i have him too,
came in december so far 17 times, grabs a page and disappears...

he is according to Google Analytics located in Mountain View, uses Firefox 1.0.4, an unknown Linux version and uses most of the time a 1280x1024 screen solution, (sometimes bigger though)...

My site is doing great in Google, uses no funny tricks, so i am not sure why we are on the same test ;)

btw. if you look for the name after the tilde at Google you might find the possible canditate, the profile could fit, right?

Who knows, maybe he writes his PhD and we are part of it...

cheers
viggen