AdSense robot including some of its info into the regular Google search index?

[mandy]

AdSense mediapartners bot adding to the Google search index

Since Google AdSense launched, there has been rumors and speculation about the possibility of the AdSense bot (officially known as the "Mediapartners-Google/2.1" and unofficially as the "mediabot") including some of its information into the regular Google search index. After all, it would be a nice perk of using AdSense if it gave a publisher easier access to getting pages into the natural search results...

...on SEO Rockstars this week, Greg Boser (aka WebGuerrilla) mentioned that he had seen mediabot information showing up in the natural search index...

, I went and checked some established sites. And the date and time on the Google cached version of the page is the identical time that the mediabot visited the site...

There is the possibility that there was an accidental cross over taking place if the AdSense team was keeping cached copies of the pages serving AdSense for quality checking purposes...

full article: http://www.jensense.com/archives/2006/04...diapa.html

[mandy]

Confirmation from Google that the AdSense mediabot spider is in fact being used to index pages for the main Google search index as part of Google's Big Daddy update.

At the Lunch sponsored by Google today Matt Cutts confirmed the recent rumors about media bot results getting into Big Daddy. Matt said it is a bandwidth saving feature to have GoogleBot and MediaBot both contributing to big daddy. Matt also stated that you will gain zero advantage in search listings...

full article: http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/04/18/matt...big-daddy/

[jezebel]

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