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mediapartners google/2.1 spiders for google index

         

eggsle beggsle

5:23 pm on Mar 23, 2006 (gmt 0)



long time lurker, first time poster...

Found something today that may interest you all, forgive me / flame me if its old news :)

One of the sites I look after has a lot of registered only links and we 'cloak' these links to freely accessible pages for certain UA strings...

I found some timestamped content in the google (supplementary results) cache at 72.14.207.104 containing loads of links to 401'ing / registration required pages. Damn google, why was the UA cloaking not working?

I checked server logs and found request with same timestamp as page in cache from 66.249.72.164 with a UA of "Mediapartners-Google/2.1"

No requests from Googlebot, just the adsense spider.

So the Adsense spider now supplies the google supplementary index. Has anyone else seen this?