Escaped Thoughts

Sat, Jun 14, 2003

Googlebot: Blog Addict?

I've recently learned that Googlebot has been busily crawling my blog (thanks to zeuropa, no doubt). And yet curiously, my blog doesn't appear anywhere on Google. I have no idea why it's refrained from adding me to the searchable index, and of course they are very closed-mouthed about why crawled sites aren't indexed... maybe it's a conspiracy, and They suspect that I know too much.

But the more curious question is, why, if I'm not cool enough to be indexed, does the Googlebot keep coming back? Clearly, Googlebot has become sentient and, for whatever reason, enjoys reading my blog.

Of course, now it (and of course They) will know that I'm on to the secret. If Google calls, you haven't seen me.

Other's Thoughts

From the mind of persimmon
googlebot loves you

It's lovesick and obsessively reloading your blog. And mine. Googlebot loves a lot of us, apparently. Since I'm on break, I'll go link you now. See if anything changes in a week.

From the mind of Stuart
Quite the title I've got there...

Thanks for the link... but I think that title's a bit much for little old me ;)

From the mind of zeuropa

Actually, it wouldn't be from me....I have a robots.txt file up, google reads that file then leaves, doesn't download anything else.

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