Googlebot now hiding its UA

[enigma1]

66.249.65.228 - - [05/May/2010:12:57:08 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 119
66.249.65.214 - - [07/May/2010:11:10:03 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 119
66.249.65.240 - - [08/May/2010:11:31:39 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 119
and there are more entries in the log. Maybe they want to acquire a session now and buy something online, who knows?

[caribguy]

Correlate those dates and times with when you last logged in to your Webmaster Tools account. It looks like it's used to display your favicons.

[enigma1]

Last I was logged into my GWT was many months ago. I am not sure of the relationship.

[caribguy]

Different issue, sorry.

www.example.com 66.249.85.2 - - [12/May/2010:11:11:11 -0900] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 403 289 "-" "-"
www.example1.com 66.249.85.2 - - [12/May/2010:11:11:11 -0900] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 403 289 "-" "-"
www.example2.com 66.249.85.2 - - [12/May/2010:11:11:11 -0900] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 403 289 "-" "-"
[etc..]