> Is he sure it's Googlebot and not somebody spoofing headers? In the author's previous post on the subject [0], he verified that the request were coming from

> Is he sure it's Googlebot and not somebody spoofing headers? In the author's previous post on the subject [0], he verified that the request were coming from Google IPs. > Is he sure Google is generating the queries, as opposed to Google just following URL's coming from elsewhere? From the URLs quoted in the article, it looks more like some sort of (machine learning-y?) system trying to infer his site's canonical URL scheme. [0] https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/484-Google-Abuse.html https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/484-Go...