trakken.corp.google.com and freshchoice5.adz.google.com

Are these the Google AdSense staff?

[killroy]

I got a hit from freshchoice5.adz.google.com:7414 Just minutes bofre I recieve my rejection email and then, after I asked for a reason, I got a hit from trakken.corp.google.com/cgi-bin/box_bm_body.py again about 3 minutes before I recieved the second reply email (not stating the reason but inviting me to try again).

Are these the Google AdSense people? I cannot open sites on those addresses. Also note the first one does NOT operate from port 80.

Who else has seen these?

SN

[killroy]

Additional:

Both track back to the IP 216.239.45.4 located in Santa Clara, California, NOt Seattle, home of the GooglePlex.

SN

[Chris_R]

"Trakken is a high performance web-based email response management system"

This is what they use inside of google I presume - I have seen it plenty of times before.

[ssjxxx]

It looks to me like they were checking out your site before they sent you these emails. This seems like a good practice. I've heard reports that google didn't check out the sites of many before they were kicked out, so I'm glad to see that they are doing this.

[Hollywood]

Does anyone know what this is? We have had 5 visits from Google from ip 216.239.45.4 - one of the reffers was h**p://trakken.corp.google.com the others were h**p://www.google.com and 3 of them were blank reffers?

Anyone have any ideas?

Interested in this... anyone?

[ThatAdamGuy]

Yeah, 216-239-45-4.google.com slurped 66 pages today from me. That makes sense if it's a bot, but it's an AdSense person doing reviews... wow, maybe someone's bored? Or (better yet), just really enjoying my site? :D

Incidentally, today is also the day in which I got a half-a-dozen hits from The Trakker (trakkinator, trakkorino, trakkmeister!).

Strange. I don't know if I should feel loved or stalked.

[Hollywood]

Yah I started ducking under the covers and got away from the window, also had a few extra beers and cigarettes!

:)