Google bots are sleeping on the job??

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Yeah, and for some i just kick them out.

 

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.