lee wrote:You're correct Jojje, the system stats show Google's IP address. It looks like google's googlebot is currently crawling each forum. Maybe they've changed the way they crawl sites these days because we never had a problem like this before. Usually the site is only spidered once a day in a matter of seconds.
Lee, does that mean that it is "googlebot" that is eating up the bandwidth and consequently costing the site money?
Is google becoming a bit of a poisoned chalice? Its indirect costs to the site could exceed its revenue generation.
