Now it is coming back to me. Disgust is right. If I remember correctly, when you clear your cache, you will also lose that icon too -- until you revisit the site. They are not persistant.
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Back to Googlebot and odd page requests I've just got Botspotter up and running again, after a rewrite and major architecture change. Googlebot hasn't revisited - but Slurp has been making some really odd requests for pages that don't exists, haven't existed... Where googlebot was making some intelligent regional requests for pages that made sense to me I just don't get /pinstpatrick.htm /eagenda/wsn8_1display/classilace.htm /Programmation/wsn57_1display.htm /g4strahler/wsn4_3display/PPLLINKS.htm the wsn bits are all legit, it's the text before and after that makes me wonder about the white stuff see http://botspotter.net/bsr-1_All_1_today_Bot__0.html
I think you will find they are looking for sites that are cloaking. Send a request for a random generated page name, get a reply a few times when you should get a 404 and alarm bells start ringing.
Sarahk, Funny you should bring that up. Until the last 24 hours I hadn't seen much of this since I first posted. When I woke up this morning my mailbox was full of 404 emails for weird pages like those you listed.
Hi ResaleBroker, if TheWormMan is right then we can sleep easy because I know I'm throwing 404s to them. I've just caught msnbot at it too so maybe it's the "strategy of the month" Sarah
Had a long discussion about this at SEO Chat a while ago h**p://forums.seochat.com/showthread.php?t=13439 Sorry couldn't post a live link till I have 10 posts??
Thanks wormman - I don't go there often these days. Seems like the consensus is on cloaking detection.