What's Googlebot been sniffing?

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  1. disgust

    disgust Guest

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    #41
    favicons never showed for me on IE unless they're added to my favorites..
     
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    #42
    Just tried again, favicon doesn't show in IE, but it shows in Opera.
     
    exam, Sep 25, 2004 IP
  3. ResaleBroker

    ResaleBroker Active Member

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    #43
    Same here. I thought that was just how it is.
     
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  4. Dodger

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    #44
    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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  5. flawebworks

    flawebworks Tech Services

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    #45
    In IE; if you continuously wiggle the favicon and click refresh at the same time it will show up.

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  6. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    #46
    That sounds like an awful lot of work just to see some icon...
     
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  7. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #47
    Get Mozilla Firefox! I used to groan at people who used non-IE browsers but this one really is worth the effort of downloading and installing. If nothing else, favicon works - everytime!
     
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  8. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #48
    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
     
    sarahk, Oct 20, 2004 IP
  9. Thewormman

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    #49
    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.
     
    Thewormman, Oct 20, 2004 IP
  10. ResaleBroker

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    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.
     
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  11. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #51
    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
     
    sarahk, Oct 20, 2004 IP
  12. ResaleBroker

    ResaleBroker Active Member

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    #52
    Agreed.
    At least the 404 emails go straight to my deleted items box.:)
     
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  13. Thewormman

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    #53
    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??
     
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  14. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    #54
    Thanks wormman - I don't go there often these days. Seems like the consensus is on cloaking detection.
     
    sarahk, Oct 20, 2004 IP
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