Googlebot?

[Pab]

Hi all,

We're able to monitor live visitors to our website. Recently I've noticed Google searching a specific word on my website.

They stay on the page for 2 minutes or so and then leave. I noticed this twice today, both times for about 2 minutes and with no navigation to other pages. The same word was searched both times today, but on other days it's a different word... usually a language name.

Is this a bot or is a human doing a manual search on our site for a specific keyword? If the latter, why?

http://www.sure-languages.com/images/google.jpg

[OldWelshGuy]

googlebot can't fill forms. are you sure it isn't coming from a hard coded search url?

[Pab]

What you can in the above image is all I know. So you think this is a human search?

[OldWelshGuy]

yep I think it is
people working for google search while at work :)

[nass]

hmm, kinda surprised to see a google guy using IE though, I'd expect chrome or FF.

I get the same thing, I wonder about it too:

http://my9.statcounter.com/images/mag.gif (http://my9.statcounter.com/project/standard/magnify.php?project_id=3665268&ip_number=1123636567) 66.249.85.87 (Google Inc) [Label IP Address] (http://my9.statcounter.com/project/standard/add_ip_address_label.php?project_id=3665268&ip_address=66.249.85.87&return_url=%2Fproject%2Fstandard%2Fpath.php%3Fproj ect_id%3D3665268)

California, Mountain View, United States, 0 returning visit

DateTimeWebPage22nd January 200921:04:18www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.telefonix.co.uk avaya-telephone-systems (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.telefonix.co.uk%20avaya-telephone-systems)
Avaya Telephone Systems from Telefonix (http://www.telefonix.co.uk/avaya-telephone-systems/)

btw, also using IE, go figure :)

VISITOR ANALYSISReferring Linkhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.telefonix.co.uk avaya-telephone-systems (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.telefonix.co.uk%20avaya-telephone-systems)Host Name
IP Address66.249.85.87 [Label IP Address] (http://my9.statcounter.com/project/standard/add_ip_address_label.php?project_id=3665268&ip_address=66.249.85.87&return_url=%2Fproject%2Fstandard%2Fmagnify.php%3Fp roject_id%3D3665268%26ip_number%3D1123636567)Count ryUnited StatesRegionCaliforniaCityMountain ViewISPGoogle IncReturning Visits0Visit Length0 secondsVISITOR SYSTEM SPECSBrowserMSIE 6.0Operating SystemWindows XPResolution1024x768JavascriptEnabled

[Pab]

It sure is a strange one... I'm glad it's not just me.

The only thing I can think of is that a page or certain copy is flagged for human review?

[nass]

Dunno, if so then they're even slower than government departments :) - that same query has been done for months

actually I think I'll do some php against the IP and ask them wth they're looking at :)