What is - Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://ww

[sandis.viksna]

Hi,

I found in my web logs that time by time following agent visits my site:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

instead of standard:
Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html

can anybody explain to me?

Thanks,
Sandis Viksna
from Latvia

[emils]

I was about to ask the same question... It appears to me that there has been a definite change in Googlebot lately. We are being hit heavily by Googlebot from new IP's like 66.249.6*.* rather than old 64.68.* and from what i see in logs, this seems to have a 'Freshbot' behavior.

All hits from Googlebot with 'Mozilla' inside seem to come at a slower pace and going a bit deeper. If that difference still exists, I think this should be some sort of equivalent of the former Deepbot.

Anyone else noticed this?

[sandis.viksna]

okey, thanks ;)

at last it is some sort of bot, not some hacker:)