Was this the Googlebot?

Or was it Someone from Google Surfing Our Site?

[The Toecutter]

I had a visit today from a Google URL in our log:

216-239-45-4.google.com - - [18/Sep/2002:15:56:03 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" "-" 304 -

This IP address does not fall under one of the IP's in the "Google Spider IP Addresses" list on this site :(

QUESTION:
Was this Googlebot? Or was it someone from Google surfing our site?

They opened our index.html page 3 times in a 3-minute period.

We just moved our site to a new hosting company and simultaneously rolled out a totally new web site.

Thanks for Your Input!

[fiestagirl]

I would venture to guess that is was either someone at Google surfing, (did they do a search?) or someone at Google checking out your site by hand.
Not a googlebot.

[WebGuerrilla]

Are you running AdWords? That is a common IP for AdWords editors. Also, was there a request for any graphics from your site?

Google does crawl pages with an unidentified bot from time to time. (Although that is not the IP they usually use for the snoopbot)

[The Toecutter]

Fiestagirl - no they did not do a search. And unfortunately my host does not log browsers and OS's so I can't tell what they surfed in on.

WebGuerrilla - We are not running any Ad Words. Nor did they pull up any graphics specifically except while opening the index.html page.

They opened the index.html page 3 times over a 3 minute period. Each time it took about 5 seconds to open the page. That was all they looked at (the site has 39 html pages).

I guess it was someone from Google doing a manual site check.

I'm wondering if switching hosting companies and the fact that we just created a whole new web site at the same time triggered some kind of an alarm at Google? and they came to see?

[The Toecutter]

Another new hit from Google the other day:

proxy.google.com - - [25/Sep/2002:19:28:36 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" "-" 200 22336
proxy.google.com - - [25/Sep/2002:19:33:22 -0400] "GET /xxx1.html HTTP/1.0" "-" 200 25650
proxy.google.com - - [25/Sep/2002:19:33:34 -0400] "GET /xxx2.html HTTP/1.0" "-" 200 21831

Anyone seen Google do this before?

[fiestagirl]

Probably someone surfing using a wireless device. Google wap traslator, it converts html to wml.

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[fiestagirl]

dupe. sorry.

[edited by: fiestagirl at 4:22 pm (utc) on Sep. 27, 2002]

[volatilegx]

Careful, some people use the Google proxy to attempt to decloak websites. Careful cloakers exclude the Google proxy.

[The Toecutter]

We are not cloaking or doing any other types of tricks. Our content is plain and straight forward.

I guess we have simply triggered some type of alarm by changing nameservers and putting up all new web content at the same time. We seem to be getting a hand review from Google. I am honored!

Thanks for all your replies!

[Powdork]

WebGuerrilla - We are not running any Ad Words. Nor did they pull up any graphics specifically except while opening the index.html page.

If it pulled up graphics then its not the bot, unless its the google image index bot thingy. Don't know her ip.

<added>the spider ip list doesn't even include 216.239.46... last I checked<added>