Thursday, November 19, 2009

Is google an ISP as well in the US?

Because i can see in my website logs that somebody behind a google ip address (New York) regulary visits and reads certain pages in my website. Before you say that it is normal and is just google spidering my site i must make it clear that my site is 1 week old and hasn't yet been indexed by google.com. I found articles from 2005 on the net which read that google wanted to become an ISP in the US.

Is google an ISP as well in the US?
Google operates a WiFi network in Mountain View (California) and is getting ready to launch one in San Francisco, however, New York isn't on the list...at least not yet. If it wasn't a Google spider then it could have been a Google employee or contractor.





BTW, just because your site isn't yet indexed doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't a spider. Crawling happens way before results show up on Google Search.
Reply:No problem man. :-) Report It

Reply:Google is not an ISP (Internet Service Provider.) Google is a search engine, and has news, maps, Google Earth with pictures, etc. Google on its own can't make regular visits and read pages on your website, but somebody using Google can.


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