different google spiders visiting?

[eatapeach]

i''ve noticed that i get two different googlebots visiting, according to my server stats:

"googlebot"

and

"Googlebot (Google)"

i see the first one the most but they both seem to pull the same number of pages each visit.

anybody know the difference?

thanks,
michael

[Linkster]

Without seeing the rest of the referral info I cant tell which you are seeing, but there are three "basic" types of googlebots - two of them have recently been interchangable - the "fresh" bot which looks for updates to pages and the "deep" bot which is the main indexer of the "entire web" :) the third is their image bot which looks for images with alt text or descriptive image names to place in their image search

[eatapeach]

right on. thanks for the explanation |shake|