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We have witnessed a Google "bot" use one of our AJAX requests, which is strange considering we have robots.txt blocked all of our AJAX requests -- robots.txt di
by thezilch 15y ago
We have witnessed a Google "bot" use one of our AJAX requests, which is strange considering we have robots.txt blocked all of our AJAX requests -- robots.txt disallows requests on /remote/, which all of "remote" (AJAX) requests are proxied through. As well, the request only happens (automatically) for a user after they have made a POST to another form; the later requires POST data, where as the POST in question could really be a GET -- our AJAX wrapper requires an explicit use of GET.
Nonetheless, there have been some more recent Google "bots," including the POST in question, that may be of interest to those that track those metrics -- remove those requests from internal reports.
Requests:
74.125.78.83 "POST /remote/poll/230378/demographics/ HTTP/1.0" 200 6469 "http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/would-you-like-to-wish-my-daughter-hannahgirl-a-happy-birthday/question-230378/?page=2 "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.51 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Chrome/12.0.742 Safari/534.51" www.sodahead.com
74.125.78.83 "GET /entertainment/are-cigarettes-destroying-adeles-voice/question-2212639/ HTTP/1.0" 200 9240 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; generic) AppleWebKit/534.51 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.51" m.sodahead.com
74.125.78.83 "GET /united-states/how-the-white-house-public-relations-campaign-on-the-oil-spill-is-harming-the-actual-clean-up/blog-367099/ HTTP/1.0" 200 39784 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.51 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Chrome/12.0.742 Safari/534.51" www.sodahead.com
74.125.78.83 "GET /living/white-tea-natural-fat-burner-will-you-take-it-and-get-ready-for-the-summer/question-362433/ HTTP/1.0" 200 14260 "http://translate.google.com.eg/translate_p?hl=ar&prev=/search%3Fq%3DWHITE%2BTEA%2BFAT%2BBURNER%26hl%3Dar%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D634%26prmd%3Dimvns&sl=en&u=http://www.sodahead.com/living/white-tea-natural-fat-burner-will-you-take-it-and-get-ready-for-the-summer/question-362433/&usg=ALkJrhhLw3GWfeKOfwKa0CK-pbsDlRuEXA "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.220 Safari/535.1,gzip(gfe) (via translate.google.com)" www.sodahead.com
74.125.78.83 "GET /living/do-you-think-too-much-about-death/question-1785829/ HTTP/1.0" 302 20 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; generic) AppleWebKit/534.51 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.51" www.sodahead.com
74.125.78.83 "GET /entertainment/kim-kardashian-boobs-too-big/question-2168867/ HTTP/1.0" 200 12680 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (en-us) AppleWebKit/534.14 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Wireless Transcoder) Chrome/9.0.597 Safari/534.14" www.sodahead.com
UserAgents (Google "bots"):
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.51 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Chrome/12.0.742 Safari/534.51
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; generic) AppleWebKit/534.51 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.51
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.51 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Chrome/12.0.742 Safari/534.51
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.220 Safari/535.1,gzip(gfe) (via translate.google.com)
mobile request against non-mobile site: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; generic) AppleWebKit/534.51 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.51
Mozilla/5.0 (en-us) AppleWebKit/534.14 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Wireless Transcoder) Chrome/9.0.597 Safari/534.14
- giltotherescue 15y agoI run a site which triggers POSTs via Ajax for visitor tracking. We explicitly disable crawling of the Ajax directory via robots.txt and have not observed Googlebot crawling these URLs. Strange that Googlebot behaves differently for you.
- jrockway 15y agoThese don't seem like crawlers, but rather proxies requesting information on behalf of a user (perhaps with that user agent that is in the UA string). Those are "Google bots", but they aren't the Googlebot.