Comments on: Google looking at Perenety

By: Priscilla Douglas

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By: Ivan Tumanov

Ivan Tumanov — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:38:30 +0000

I read about an experiment somebody did a little bit ago where they visited a page that wasn’t linked from anywhere and that they didnt’ tell anybody about from their own browser using the google toolbar. Sure enough, the toolbar submitted the URL of this hidden page to google as part of the usual pagerank-fetching process, and the page got visited by googlebot and got put into google’s search results within a matter of days.

I’ve long suspected that AdSense ads not only fetch content for purposes of figuring out which ads to put on the page, but also to index the pages for google’s search results. I suspect the same thing happens with google analytics.

By: Amr Awadallah

Amr Awadallah — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:46:55 +0000

Actually from Google analytics you can tell what they were looking at:

Click on the red icon beside “Google” with two up arrows,
then click on Cross Segment Performance,
then click on Content,
this will then show you which URLs within your site they accessed.

Please share

– amr

By: Bill Trippe

Bill Trippe — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:06:09 +0000

I’m curious what your raw files might reveal about what Google has been up to.

By: Xavier Casanova

Xavier Casanova — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:19:25 +0000

I had the same idea so I compared this to my stats for Coffee, Sun and Technology (using Google Analytics - same reporting tool on both sites). There I am seeing very few hits for “google” as a network - and very far down the list (see comparison here: http://www.coffeesuntechnology.com/g-p.php).

By: labbe

labbe — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:20:36 +0000

We had the exact same porblem and google web accelerator was the reason.
With google on every part of our browser it’s start to mix everything !

By: J.D. Amer

J.D. Amer — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:43:16 +0000

It’s possible that it’s not Google. If someone visiting your site is using the Google Web Accelerator you will see the ip as Google, even though it is coming from somewhere else.

By: Jeff Clavier

Jeff Clavier — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:30:44 +0000

And whilst you are at it, setup your FeedBurner feed to access one of the default style sheets.
StatsCounter.com and Sitemeter.com do a good, complementary, job.

By: Clinton Goveas

Clinton Goveas — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:35:28 +0000

I agree with Frank there. I use StatCounter.com, and keep Google Analytics out of places I don’t want Google knowing about. Places like the download pages of e-products I sell online. Maybe its just a little paranoia, but reading your story, sort of makes me feel vindicated.