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chrisrixon
Sun 15th Jan '06, 8:47am
I've been researching a problem and discovered alot of stuff like this in the logs:


68.104.45.181 - - [14/Jan/2006:07:19:05 -0500] "GET /forum/register.php?a=act&u=99&i=9999999 HTTP/1.1" 200 5453 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; FunWebProducts; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
66.249.72.236 - - [14/Jan/2006:07:19:06 -0500] "GET /forum/register.php?a=act&u=99&i=9999999 HTTP/1.1" 200 4701 "-" "Mediapartners-Google/2.1"


It seems Google is mirroring a users activity, note how Google visits right after the user. Is this the Google tool bar? Any one any thoughts or comments?

Thanks Chris.
Dave#
Sun 15th Jan '06, 12:04pm
User-agent: *
Disallow: register.php
RaZor Edge
Thu 19th Jan '06, 10:44am
I've been researching a problem and discovered alot of stuff like this in the logs:


68.104.45.181 - - [14/Jan/2006:07:19:05 -0500] "GET /forum/register.php?a=act&u=99&i=9999999 HTTP/1.1" 200 5453 "" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; FunWebProducts; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
66.249.72.236 - - [14/Jan/2006:07:19:06 -0500] "GET /forum/register.php?a=act&u=99&i=9999999 HTTP/1.1" 200 4701 "-" "Mediapartners-Google/2.1"


It seems Google is mirroring a users activity, note how Google visits right after the user. Is this the Google tool bar? Any one any thoughts or comments?

Thanks Chris.
Do you have Adsense on your forum?
chrisrixon
Fri 20th Jan '06, 1:34pm
Do you have Adsense on your forum?
Yes, we do. Could that be it?
Zachery
Fri 20th Jan '06, 1:57pm
Mediapartners-Google

That is the google adsense spider.
RaZor Edge
Fri 20th Jan '06, 3:15pm
Yes, we do. Could that be it?
Yes. When a page is viewed, Google send a bot to analyse page content. This is how they can send targeted ads.
chrisrixon
Fri 20th Jan '06, 4:00pm
Ahhhh, makes sense, nothing sinister. Thanks Chris.