Different GoogleBots doing the same work
I’m a big fan of Jenstar from webmaster world as well as her JenSense web site. For the most part I’m interested in the information about AdSense and other contextual advertising mediums, occasionally she surprises me with information that is usually a bit more technical than I would expect. (Not that Jen isn’t technical, but her site is usually about advertising)
About a month ago she made a post in which she shows that her log entries verified that the Google AdSense media partner GoogleBot was adding information into the Google search engine. While Google maintains that they have different search engines spiders for different purposes, it certainly does not surprise me that the information is being used across their different services.
In fact it would be the best use of their resources to have a single search engine spider that collected all information about a website and then the each of their different services used that one huge database differently. I do understand Google not wanting people think that having an AdSense account would get them into the search engine results there are faster in any way. It just seems to me to be a huge waste of resources.
http://www.jensense.com/archives/2006/04/adsense_mediapa.html
