Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Could The New Google Spider Be Causing Issues With Websites?

Around the time Google announced "Big Daddy," there was a new Googlebot roaming the web. Since then I've heard stories from clients of websites and servers going down and previously unindexed content getting indexed.
I started digging into this and you'd be surprised at what I found out.
First, let's look at the timeline of events:
In Late September some astute spider watchers over at Webmasterworld spotted unique Googlebot activity. In fact, it was in this thread: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/25897-9-10.htm that the bot was first reported on. It concerned some posters who thought that perhaps this could be regu View the rest of this article


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