Someone from google browsing my site for hours

[breezeman]

Someone who's IP resolved to google INC has been browsing my site for a few hours. It is not a bot I think, the referer was a google search

In the logs I see they are checking out almost every page on my site, so that is strange I think. And about a page every few minutes, so it looks like their reading it for a couple of hours by now.

Perhaps investigating my adsense site, but not for that long I would think.

What do you think?

[Jenstar]

Google employees are allowed to surf from their desks, I wouldn't worry about it, unless you are guilty of something ;)

[breezeman]

Yeah but just finding it strange to browse one site for so many hours, it's not that interesting ;)

Plus it's an ip from google usa, and my site is in Dutch..

[hunderdown]

Maybe it's a competitor.

[fiestagirl]

Could be someone using this:
[webmasterworld.com...]

[ClosedGL]

Yeah, Googlebot visits one of my sites a lot too. Actually, he's the only visitor. *Sob*

[breezeman]

Could be someone using this:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Yes must be it, read that google web accelerator ips start with 72.14.192. thanks.

What a waste of bandwith to cache 50 pages when only viewing one.

[incrediBILL]

What a waste of bandwith to cache 50 pages when only viewing one.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Pre-Fetch.

[nanotopia]

Your site is probably being spidered by Google, regardless of what your logs say. Seems strange to me that any real person from Google would linger that long.

[larryhatch]

Are they downloading pages only, or pages + images the way a normal viewer would? -Larry

[breezeman]

Are they downloading pages only, or pages + images the way a normal viewer would? -Larry

+ images & favicon.ico from mozilla

[larryhatch]

Breezeman: If they are downloading pages + images + favicon.ico, it sounds more like a browser,
possibly using prefetch. All the robots I see take either all images, or all .html files.
How about robots.txt? Did that get fetched early on or not?

[breezeman]

Never got robots.txt at all.
First entry:

72.14.192.52 - - [16/May/2005:21:37:57 +0200] "GET /<snip>.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 2628 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=nl&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Anl-NL%3Aofficial_s&q=[snip>+&btnG=Zoeken&lr=lang_nl" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl-NL; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3"

last entry:

72.14.192.52 - - [16/May/2005:22:46:16 +0200] <snip>

[larryhatch]

well, your visitor reads Dutch. My best guess is somebody using prefetch.
&btnG=zoeken is the Dutch Google-Search button.
They won't call for robots.txt of course. -Larry