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Other factors can also come into play, e.g. you could be sitting on an IP subnet where someone else has been scraping Google, or a worm has been sending automat
by Matt_Cutts 16y ago
Other factors can also come into play, e.g. you could be sitting on an IP subnet where someone else has been scraping Google, or a worm has been sending automated queries to Google.
- jacquesm 16y ago> you could be sitting on an IP subnet where someone else has been scraping Google Unlikely, I'm in the sticks, most people here are old and wouldn't know a mouse from a keyboard > or a worm has been sending automated queries to Google. That would have to be a linux based worm then. Unless that suspected worm is sitting on another IP of course. Do you want me to try to make it reproducible ? I'd happily spend the time if it would help to make this problem go away. I understand how hard it is to differentiate between bots and regular users, but you should be able to pick up the difference between your own toolbar in normal use situations and a bot. And if that's not the case then either the battle is 'lost' or it might be better to simply only let the toolbar query the google servers when explicitly asked to do so.