GoogleBot/2.3: New Version?

First time I saw 2.3

[pontifex]

Hi everybody,

today I found

GoogleBot/2.3 : 64.68.89.188

accessing our domains. That IP resolves to exodus, but the IP BEFORE in the traceroute shows Google as the owner.

Last time I looked (about 3 hours ago :-) there was a 2.1 as the version number. Is this the new spider?

P!

[ciml]

Well, the IP's Google's and I see it hitting just a small handful of domains (not really crawling them yet).

Why straight to 2.3? (no Googlebot/2.2) Also, why GoogleBot not Googlebot?

Interesting find pontiflex.

[ThomasB]

also found it in my logs, but from 2 other IPs.

[ByronM]

i have 1 hit from:

HTTP/1.1" 200 9640 "-" "GoogleBot/2.3"

i wouldn't have even noticed if i didn't catch this thread :)

[ciml]

> from 2 other IPs

Me too; a bunch of IPs fetching URLs in a Googlebot-like fashion. Just very sparsely.

[rfgdxm1]

>Why straight to 2.3? (no Googlebot/2.2)

My best guess: the software that would have been Googlebot/2.2 was found to be wanting, whereas 2.3 was deemed adequate. Remember, this is just internal Google stuff, and not something they market, and thus would want to name it in a way that made sense for consumers.

[AthlonInside]

Can't find any in my log files! :( Google Abandoned me ... Blarrrrr ...... Warlarrrr .....

:)