Found this in me logs today: VM4050/132.037 UP.Browser/6.2.2.4.e.1.100 (GUI) MMP/2.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) IP address: 66.249.65.1 Anyone else seen this one?
I found it in the log of eight of my web sites. For me, the IP address is always 66.249.66.240. The user agent string does not seem to vary. "VM4050/132.037 UP.Browser/6.2.2.4.e.1.100 (GUI) MMP/2.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google .com/bot.html)" Next to determine what all of those numbers and letters mean... The VM4050 is a Toshiba mobile telephone. UP.Browser is a cell phone web browser. Googlebot got a cell phone?
That's the first time I've seen that ip. Haven't seen that particular ua on any other site. Crawlin with a cellphone? UGH....
Interesting - I just looked at my logs for the last week, and of the 951 hits from Googlebot on all of www.komar.org I saw 4 from the "WMV4050" one, all at 0510 (MST) this morning ... with robts.txt being the first downloaded. The IP address was 66.249.65.142 which (based on reverse/forwards lookups) does appear to be legit google.com address ... wonder what's up with all this?
Alek... you need a shorter blog entry title -- you're messing up the display at 800x600. Now, back to our regularly scheduled program...
Perhaps its a new GoogleBot acting like a cellphone to test wireless access to your site. (For perhaps a sub-index for cellphone searches?) I saw a news program the other day about cellphone queries that take into account your cell's GPS locator, giving you results in your area. (Ie, search for pizza and it shows local pizza places, that are close to where you are actually standing.) DS
I like that idea! It would make a lot of sense to have a search that only shows sites that will display on a mobile phone browser. It's fairly pointless using search engines on a mobile at the moment - mainly because most of the results still won't display anyway. How long before this pops up in Google Labs?