Google spidering with new user agent

[zerillos]

if found this User Agent in my logs

Mozilla/5.0 (en-us) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Wireless Transcoder) Version/3.1 Safari/525.13

and is coming from the usual IPs googlebot comes. Any ideas what it is used for?

[wilderness]

mobile.

There's old threads on wireless transcoder

[zerillos]

Thanks.
isn't Google-Mobile their bot for the mobile stuff?

[wilderness]

Google has such a variety of agendas and software's from which people may enter a website, that's quite impossible to stay abreast.

Older transcoders

64.233.173.18 - - [02/Feb/2010:12:22:06 +0000] "GET /MyFolder/MyPage.html HTTP/1.1" 403 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (en-us) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Wireless Transcoder) Version/3.1 Safari/525.13"



72.14.204.136 - - [31/Jul/2008:18:32:49 -0500] "GET /MyFolder/MySubFolder/MyPage.html HTTP/1.0" 403 - "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Google Wireless Transcoder;)"

Old threads at Webmaster World [google.com]

[dstiles]

Zerillos - this is not a bot. It's a way of getting some web site stuff into a mobile - a sort of proxy. It has some bad usage so I block it.