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Mom, Google Keeps Touching Me!

Worse still, it's those pesky Googlebots.

Lately, upon tracking my blog traffic at Sitemeter, I've noticed a sudden wellspring of readership coming out of Mountain View, California.  While flattering, I get the feeling these users might struggle with the Turing Test.

See that cluster of white dots about midway up the west coast?

In addition to hailing from Google's hometown, they surf a Google-branded ISP and they're all being referred by Bloxor (the self-affirmed "Best online aggregator ever!").

Not that I have a problem with this, mind you.  It inflates both my traffic numbers and my e-go, and I'm sure it's integral to Google's beta BlogSearch having gotten so good so quickly.

It's just mildly sad that the bots are such efficient blogcrawlers that they're often the first "readers" to log a visit after I publish a new post.

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Mom, Google Keeps Touching Me!

Worse still, it's those pesky Googlebots.

Lately, upon tracking my blog traffic at Sitemeter, I've noticed a sudden wellspring of readership coming out of Mountain View, California.  While flattering, I get the feeling these users might struggle with the Turing Test.

See that cluster of white dots about midway up the west coast?

In addition to hailing from Google's hometown, they surf a Google-branded ISP and they're all being referred by Bloxor (the self-affirmed "Best online aggregator ever!").

Not that I have a problem with this, mind you.  It inflates both my traffic numbers and my e-go, and I'm sure it's integral to Google's beta BlogSearch having gotten so good so quickly.

It's just mildly sad that the bots are such efficient blogcrawlers that they're often the first "readers" to log a visit after I publish a new post.