get.media?t=s

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Every once in a while, GoogleBot scans my site looking for the file get.media?t=sWhat is it doing? Is there a file I can put in that gives google additional information?Here is part of my log file: All 40 of my websites got scanned for this about 3 minutes ago:URL : http://www.yahooclone.com/get.media?t=sHost : http://www.yahooclone.comReferer: IP : 66.249.65.134Domain : crawl-66-249-65-134.googlebot.comQuery : Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)Date : Wed-03-Aug-2005 10:29JMWhat tool you use to get these details.?thank youNickyI just hijack 404 on my server and save out a log of all files that don't exist..htaccess:ErrorDocument 404 /log404.phpthen in log404.php: $addr = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; $referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; $qri = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; $agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; $dom = gethostbyaddr($addr); $dam = date("D-d-M-Y h:i",time() - 10800);I fwrite that to disk.So does nobody know what get.media is doing when Google askes for it? Has anybody even seen this or are you just not answering? Well, I've never seen it, and all the searches I did for it turned up 404 pages. Without putting much research behind this, I'd have to say it was a possible bug in googlebot. Put up a page called get.media and see what happens Well I don't think it is a bug. I get allot of wierd requests from all kinds of robots. Here are some examples:I think the slurp is somehow Yahoo's bot, testing for 404 or something.URL : http://www.wildjohn.com/?M=A.htmlHost : http://www.wildjohn.comReferer: IP : 68.142.251.142Domain : lj2532.inktomisearch.comQuery : M=AAgent : Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)Date : Thu-04-Aug-2005 06:27URL : http://www.coolipods.com/?S=A.htmlHost : http://www.coolipods.comReferer: IP : 68.142.249.16Domain : lj2006.inktomisearch.comQuery : S=AAgent : Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)Date : Wed-03-Aug-2005 06:49URL : nexalis.com/zzrobots.txtHost : nexalis.comReferer: IP : 192.55.214.54Domain : 192.55.214.54Query : Agent : Microsoft_Internet_Explorer_5.00.439ci ([email protected])Date : Thu-04-Aug-2005 01:49URL : http://www.nakedchicksonbikes.comhttp://www.nakedchicksonbikes.com/cg ... teAdmin.plHost : http://www.nakedchicksonbikes.comReferer: http://www.nakedchicksonbikes.com/cgi-bin/SiteAdmin.plIP : 213.23.142.141Domain : dsl-213-023-142-141.arcor-ip.netQuery : Agent : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)Date : Thu-04-Aug-2005 12:25(I think this is a hacker)URL : http://www.nexalis.com/p.php?p=770110Yc ... Fw00rhkoauHost : http://www.nexalis.comReferer: IP : 83.246.141.68Domain : dsluplink-141-68.intelbi.ruQuery : Agent : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)Date : Wed-03-Aug-2005 07:27URL : http://www.adultfriendfinder2.com/Slurp ... rindex.htmHost : http://www.adultfriendfinder2.comReferer: IP : 66.196.91.117Domain : lj1337.inktomisearch.comQuery : Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)Date : Wed-03-Aug-2005 07:50Actually, I just thought of something. I can just write a crawler, that goes through other websites and finds sites that actually do have a get.media file on it and see what they look like.Hmm... I will return with my results.Here's another thought. Perhaps using get.media is a known google spam technique, and google is simply checking to see if you employ it. It's a longshot, but still a possibility.