Dots is a project in Google, and the guy working on it is a <insert a word
that starts with F and ends with tard>. Someone needs to give the guy a
sandbox that doesn't connect to the real world cause when the thing goes hay
wire it will crawl a site for 300k pages in a matter of hours.

I think the project is related to maps somehow.  It used to only "attack"
sites with addresses in the page code, or sites with a GeoTag in their RSS
feeds.

I think the guy didn't get the "No Evil" memo.



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From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com
[mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Darke (Google)
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 3:30 AM
To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com
Cc: carolinasviperc...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Is an APP ENGINE Application Attacking
websites? - DOTS user agent / browser

Do you have the full useragent?

App engine applications state that they are running on google app engine in
their user agent. They also state the application id that is making the
request. If the user agent does not contain google app engine, then it is
not an app engine application making the requests.

On 8 August 2011 15:57, Viper <carolinasviperc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apparently this has been reported in several other places on Google 
> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=6dd38e3537
> 6e723e&hl=en 
> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?tid=0a4d894e8
> 58660f6&hl=en 
> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=1ef5e9959b
> b406c1&hl=en
>
> And no one seems to know what it is, but found a reference for one of 
> the IP addresses having to do something with the Google App Engine
>
> Has anyone noticed the new DOTS browser / spider / user agent 
> browsing/scanning their site from Google IP Addresses?  Here is an 
> example of a log entry from one
>
> Log File: X:\W3SVC1\ex110804.log
> Log Entries For:74.125.64.84
> Browser: dots
> Referrer:
> Started: 8/4/2011 5:20:26 PM
>
> 2011-08-04 21:20:26 GET /--------------------- 74.125.64.84 dots - -
> www.------- 403 6 0 5521 109 62
>
> 1 Log Entries
>
> They seem to be coming from blocks
> 74.125.0.0 - 74.125.255.255
>
> and a few other Google blocks.
>
> The problem is that had to no enable the Plus (+1 button) on a site 
> because apparently the Spider (it uses a different user agent) comes 
> from the same blocks as this mysterious DOTS browser / spider / useragent.
>
> Haven't seem to find an concrete information as to what the purpose of 
> DOTS is and whether it should be trusted or not.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
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