Search Engine News from Piedmont Design

At http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-verify-googlebot.html, Google has posted how to verify that a spider named Googlebot is really from Google.  Telling people to check DNS seems like telling us the obvious.  The helpful tip was to also check the fully qualified domain name as spider owners could spoof that.  I’m not tight enough on bandwidth to care if I’m being over spidered, even by rouge spiders spoofing their namres so this isn’t all that valuable to me.  I do like for Google to index as frequently as possible, though.  Welcome Google.  Come on in… take off your shoes and relax.