Custom search engine....googlebot

kante

Well what I'm goin to ask seems weird to me also, but I'll try anyway, at least
I have your opinion too....

In my web site I implmented a search engine.
Anytime a user sends a POST/GET request to this engine i also log
the search terms and other data like the REMOTE ADDR of the sender request.

Well any time i go online and send the request the search is logged twice n sometimes 3 times...I immediately thought It was my mistake that i send 2 or more queries....
but I was surprised when I looked better at the search logs and saw the second or eventually third call have REMOTE_ADDR that lookup to googlebot...

How is it possible? I haven't made any script that is related to this event...
I thought it could be because of the google analytics... I comment it out but no changes... always double request...

This happens always from my location... but some other user around the world
is tracked with only one record/search....

😕
How to explain this?

Thanks

kante

well i've found this depends on my browser... FFox in this case
that probably have some kind of add-on or toolbar that until now i don't know... that sends this concurrent search request

until now i know the user agent that is recognized as 'Mediapartners-Google'

kante

noone has any idea about this problem?

bradgrafelman

You said it yourself:

kante;10997872 wrote:
well i've found this depends on my browser... FFox in this case
that probably have some kind of add-on or toolbar

So, do we have any idea what has been installed on your PC? No, no we don't.

Have you tried disabling all plugins/extensions in FireFox and seeing if the duplicate requests go away?

kante

:eek: thanks for the effort

Weedpacket

Well, it's using the same user-agent string that Google's adsense crawler uses, if that's any clue.

If you can't localise it by turning off extensions ("have you tried turning it off and on again?"), then one possibility is to extract the contents of their .xpi archives (they're zip files) and grep through the JavaScript to see if any of them mention that user-agent string.

kante

@ thnx for the hint....