Googlebot speaking in a strange new language

No that the googlebot actually speaks

[kiwi webmaster]

I was wondering whether anyone could shed some
light on the strange hits my site has received
from the googlebot recently.

216.239.45.4 - - [24/Sep/2002:00:23:07 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8239 "-" "Java1.3.1_02"
216.239.45.4 - - [24/Sep/2002:00:23:08 -0500] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Java1.3.1_02"
216.239.45.4 - - [24/Sep/2002:00:23:08 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8239 "-" "Java1.3.1_02"
216.239.45.4 - - [24/Sep/2002:00:23:12 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8239 "-" "Java1.3.1_02"
216.239.45.4 - - [24/Sep/2002:00:23:12 -0500] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Java1.3.1_02"
216.239.45.4 - - [24/Sep/2002:00:23:12 -0500] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 0 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"
216.239.45.4 - - [24/Sep/2002:00:23:12 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8239 "-" "Java1.3.1_02"
216.239.45.4 - - [24/Sep/2002:00:23:12 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 8239 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"
216.239.45.4 - - [24/Sep/2002:00:23:12 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8239 "-" "Java1.3.1_02"
216.239.45.4 - - [24/Sep/2002:00:23:17 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 8239 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"
216.239.45.4 - - [24/Sep/2002:00:23:17 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 8239 "-" "Java1.3.1_02"

What's the "Java1.3.1_02" all about?

Kiwi

[icarus]

Hi Kiwi,

This might shed some light on the subject - looks like 2 separate bots, one none-Google, making requests at the same time.

View:

[webmasterworld.com...]

But that doesn't explain the identical IP addresses that belong to Google - weird

A google collaborative project?

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