New Google mobile bot?

[forkqueue]

Today, for the first time I noticed some entries in my log like this:

66.249.66.20 - - [07/Sep/2005:18:36:35 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 2936 "-" "Nokia6820/2.0 (4.83) Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

Is this a new Google mobile archiving tool? I've certainly not come across it before.

I find it interesting it mentions a specific model of phone - perhaps this is being carried out for some sort of Nokia-specific search facility?

[Jester]

Originally Posted by forkqueue

Today, for the first time I noticed some entries in my log like this:

66.249.66.20 - - [07/Sep/2005:18:36:35 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 2936 "-" "Nokia6820/2.0 (4.83) Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

Is this a new Google mobile archiving tool? I've certainly not cmoe across it before.

I find it interesting it mentions a specific model of phone - perhaps this is being carried out for some sort of Nokia-specific search facility?

It's possible that Google is using something like Squeezer does. A phone requests a page, and the site sends a bot to retreive and compress the page for the phone.

Just a guess.

J

[digitalpoint]

Yeah... probably just a cell phone proxy I'm guessing.

[suzigeek]

Nokia6820/2.0 (4.83) Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http: //www . google . com/bot.html)


Found this bot this morning and I've never seen it before. Is it a Google bot for WAP?

[meditang]

Seems like it is a the WAP browser on a Nokia 6820 phone
Not sure though

[execute]

Perhaps it's just something from before, or perhaps its something to do with Bigdaddy. but I had this entry from a bot with GoogleBot tag, but it's different! Something new? It came on the 5th of February:

Nokia6820/2.0 (4.83) Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuratio...

It says googlebot somewhere on it too.

[PinoyIto]

I have seen also this in my logs but I am not sure if this is a google bot.... or nokia have their own bot now for WAP.

[suzigeek]

I saw it in my logs too and I posted about it last week but no one responded or someone did but thought it was someone browsing w/their phone. Anyway it say's googlebot in the log along w/the nokia info so i'm assuming its a bot or someone using that as there agent and faking to be googlebot.

[NetMidWest]

I saw it for the first time a few hours after posting a spam complaint, (for this: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=55842) and noticed the problem had been taken care of shortly afterwards. It made me wonder if it was a google employee, or perhaps an employee setting off a bot of some kind to check something...
Can you fake a useragent on a phone?

[execute]

IT definately has the word Google Bot in the HTTP REFERER variable.

[seopup]

Just saw in my logs as User Agent :

Nokia6820/2.0 (4.83) Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

[bargainr]

Guess it's time to create a CSS for mobile now that Google's going to crawl it as a mobile. I've put it off long enough...

[PodDesign]

Originally Posted by meditang

Seems like it is a the WAP browser on a Nokia 6820 phone
Not sure though

Good observation.

[NetMidWest]

I did not realize when I posted, and probably none of you either:
This thread is almost 6 months old.

[Phynder]

Interesting - this bot is tearing up my web site right now. At first I thought it was someone faking as a Googlebot user agent, but it sounds like it is GB. Cool!

[seopup]

You can search on google from mobile , if user wants to see a page from results google crawls it and makes a version for specific phone , I tried this before .

[costos]

This is a boot.
http://www.whois.sc/66.249.66.20