Anyone else notice this? I first detected it about an hour ago. Spotty visits from Googlebot, triggered mainly by AdSense's Mediapartners, instead of the usual steady stream. Other factors (indexing, serp performance, etc) normal.
that could be it. one of my other sites went viral on twitter and the server was a bit overloaded. i see googlebot has started to come back... it was almost totally gone for a couple of hours. that NEVER happened before. anyway, false alarm people sorry. root@gamma [~/logs]# grep -c Googlebot 1104* 110401.txt:10018 110402.txt:7199 110403.txt:11605 110404.txt:10397 110405.txt:10054 110406.txt:9629 110407.txt:9132 110408.txt:8231 110409.txt:9588 110410.txt:10985 110411.txt:8473 110412.txt:8205 110413.txt:8188 110414.txt:13055 110415.txt:6774 110416.txt:6688 110417.txt:7165 110418.txt:11414 110419.txt:6803 110420.txt:10054 110421.txt:4434