google-sitemaps/1.0

[jake66]

i'm sure this has been posted before, but i did a search and couldn't find much, other than sites' awstats... is this a real bot?

looking at: /noexist_****************.html
ip: 64.233.172.28

[edited by: volatilegx at 6:23 pm (utc) on Aug. 4, 2006]
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[thetrasher]

64.233.172.0/23
Google Web Accelerator [webaccelerator.google.com] (GWA)

[Ocean10000]

Jake I seen this too

It a check by Google to for a 404 error code display page. My guess is on the domain this showed up for you put a Google Identifying File, so that Google Sitemap will authorise you for the site. This bot first showed up on my site on 8-03-06.

It first asks for a file
/google#*$!#*$!#*$!.html then
/noexist_#*$!#*$!#*$!.html which is its check for a nonexisting file to compair the first check against.

[jake66]

Ocean10000, i'm not quite sure what you're saying

My guess is on the domain this showed up for you put a Google Identifying File, so that Google Sitemap will authorise you for the site.

yes i have a sitemap account, but haven't used it in months.

[Ocean10000]

Sorry if I wasn't clear.
What I am assuming Google is doing is going though all the current sitemap accounts (active or not), and recertifying all the accounts still have access to the domains they are setup for, and updating there records and such.

Google asked you as part of the Sitemap Process when you linked it to your Google account to put a file in a specific directory which it could later check to verify that you had control of that directory. All it is doing now is doing said check again.