Google bots are sleeping on the job??

[gordano]

I thought that google bots visited, gathered data, and went away in a matter of seconds. But when I look at my webstats the bots seem to have sessions of several hours. ... and I though the bots didn't have enough time to crawl the web.

Seems like some of the google bots (66.249.65.164) are sleeping on the job :D

Has anyone seen anything similar, is this normal for google?

[rehash]

several hours sessions?! you mean..it keeps comming for several hours...it cannot sleep, because the connection timesout in some seconds

[gordano]

Yes, several hours, then it goes, and comes back. Just checked again, livestats shows it has been there for 47 mins. Seems strange to me, maybe it just likes my website :D

[master06]

some google bots had been waiting my forums about 2 hours. i think this is normal for me.

[Eagle Eyes]

Yeah, and for some i just kick them out.

[Jocelyn]

The bots usually try to avoid overloading your server by chewing the whole site at once. So it takes a few pages and goes by passes until it picked the pages it wanted to refresh/add in the index.