Googlebot Becomes a Rogue Shopper

Search Engines

February 13, 2006

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

By: Rand Fishkin

February 13, 2006

Googlebot Becomes a Rogue Shopper

Search Engines

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

Larry & Sergey better watch their credit cards. Travis reports on Cre8asite today that Googlebot signed up as a new customer at an e-commerce site he manages. From the post:

I did a reverse lookup. It's Google Boys... The IP Address was 66.249.65.131...

OrgName: Google Inc.
OrgID: GOGL
Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
City: Mountain View
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94043
Country: US

Google has signed up for our e-commerce store.

Can't imagine what parts Googlebot is looking for from his shop, but it's certainly a fascinating study in bot behavior. I've personally never seen any of the spiders try to fill out and complete our e-commerce site forms. Maybe we just don't have what the bots need...