Weird google hostname

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Weird google hostname

yx-out-f136.google.com

johnnie

2:01 am on Jan 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Lately, I have been seeing more and hostnames like 'yx-out-f136.google.com' and 'pr-out-f136.google.com' turn up on my site. What kind of acticity does this represent? Is it spidering? Is it human review?

phranque

4:56 am on Jan 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

i would guess spidering.
check your server access log file to see what the user agents and referrers are.

 is the html entity for a zero width space.
since those characters are occurring at natural word breaks, i would guess someone is linking to you with a url that was set up for printing, since that character is often used for allowing line breaks within a string of characters.