Google fake: startdedicated

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by Blo, Jul 11, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hi

    From time to time my sites are visited by a bot that claims to be the GoogleBot but has a different host name and ip:

    air840.startdedicated.com / 69.64.49.243

    The "useragent" field says

    Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www. google.com/bot.html)

    Does anybody know about this?

    Blo.
     
    Blo, Jul 11, 2005 IP
  2. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    It may just be someone changing the user agent on their browser.

    Maybe testing your site.

    Not uncommon.
     
    SEbasic, Jul 12, 2005 IP