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I Found the Googlebot

Story of my life, it was there all along and I was looking in the wrong place. With the bigdaddy update the Googlebot’s User-Agent string changed from “Googlebot/2.1″ to “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”

This was throwing off the regular expression used by my stats program to detect the Googlebot. Fixed that and now I am enjoying regular visits.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 at 2:28 pm and is filed under Tech Tips. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “I Found the Googlebot”

  1. ronzilla Says:
    April 12th, 2006 at 11:19 am

    we must be using the same stats tool with the same hack to recognize googlebot, because I notice the same thing.

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