Re: Google spider overkill

I found these lines in my server log files:

64.68.82.28 - - [02/Jul/2003:16:00:00 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200
15473 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"
64.68.82.58 - - [02/Jul/2003:16:36:13 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200
15473 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"
64.68.82.5 - - [02/Jul/2003:17:29:46 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200
15502 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"
64.68.82.18 - - [02/Jul/2003:17:47:28 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200
15502 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"


Four different spiders visited my home page at the same day!
Is this usual?

Yes it is, especially now just after the dance.


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Richard Joseph <usenet (AT) rjsoftware (DOT) com> wrote:

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:26:56 GMT, Foxglove54321 wrote:


Four different spiders visited my home page at the same day!
Is this usual?

Yes it is, especially now just after the dance.

Is this last, long dance officially over?

The definition of "Google Dance" has changed apparently. It seems that
the database is constantly in flux these days, so if you define
"dance" as results jumping around, it may never end - nor should you
care.

As far as "new results being rolled in from the last month's crawls"
(what _I_ really care about), that still happens about once a month or
so and lasts only a few days while in process.

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I.