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UA: "google"

         

Tonearm

7:18 pm on May 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Over the last couple days I've been spidered by a critter with the following User Agent:

"google"

Has anyone else seen this one? Where does it come from?

- Grant

Matt_S

7:48 pm on May 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I think I saw someone ask this on another forum. Could be a spam bot harvesting emails pretending to be Google as to not raise eyebrows? .. which obviously didn't work!

jdMorgan

7:51 pm on May 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Yes, it's a fake user-agent from china.

Jim

Tonearm

8:42 pm on May 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Thanks guys!