What's an msnbot doing at Google?
This is a question Google (ironic, no?) couldn't answer for me: What's an msnbot doing at Google?
I often set the tail of our log files as my background because it's really interesting and makes for a good distraction. Every once in a while I see abnormal lines out of the corner of my eye (I've learned that your brain is very good at seeing abnormalities quickly). Today I saw this:
At first I didn't understand why MSN would be writing something about Google and their translation service in their User Agent string.
I did an ARIN WHOIS for the IP and it returned:
Okay, so, who's going to tell me: What's the msnbot doing at Google? Scoble, do you know anything about this? Matt Cutts?
Tags: msnbot, googlebot, msn, Google
I often set the tail of our log files as my background because it's really interesting and makes for a good distraction. Every once in a while I see abnormal lines out of the corner of my eye (I've learned that your brain is very good at seeing abnormalities quickly). Today I saw this:
64.233.178.136 - - [28/Apr/2006:15:35:44 -0500]
"GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4732 "-"
"msnbot/0.9 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm),gzip(gfe)
(via translate.google.com)" 4732 4940 -
At first I didn't understand why MSN would be writing something about Google and their translation service in their User Agent string.
I did an ARIN WHOIS for the IP and it returned:
Search results for: 64.233.178.136
OrgName: Google Inc.
OrgID: GOGL
Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
City: Mountain View
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94043
Country: US
Okay, so, who's going to tell me: What's the msnbot doing at Google? Scoble, do you know anything about this? Matt Cutts?
Tags: msnbot, googlebot, msn, Google
5 Comments:
Nope, that's weird. Will have to check on it.
Thanks. :) Let me know if you learn anything.
Ian
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