Google is sending people to non-existant pages at my site

Anyone know why?

[ChrisXenon]

I have a home-grown logging system for my E-commerce website.
It is showing me some puzzling log entries for pages which do not exist on my site.

These requests for non-existant pages are trapped by my error document and customers are sent to my index page, where they are logged - this is how I know about them.

The URLs being accessed all come from Google searches, and their names are of the form:

search=cache:Y4L1YB4xYH0C:<my url>+<search string entered at Google>&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

The referring URL is of the form:

[google.com...] Google Search string>&btnG=Google+Search

Other forms replace the search with urlturl where the referrer is reported as simply "urlturl" as well.

Anyone know what this means?

Thanks,
Chris

[Grumpus]

What's happening is that the person is viewing the cached version of your page from google. Rather than me over explaining it, go ahead and try it - enter the search that they used to find you, get to the 100th-110th listings (or maybe 120th) - that was all I could tell from the stuff you posted - and click you're pages "cached" link.

You'll see your page as google saw it when it crawled with the search terms highlighted.

If they are then going to your homepage, that's good - it means they liked what they saw and wanted to know more about your site.

G.

[ChrisXenon]

Thanks Grumous, for your time & explanation. I think it's the cache, as you say.

Cheers,
Chris