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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 19, 2014, at 15:50, Magnus Manske <<a href="mailto:magnusmanske@googlemail.com" class="">magnusmanske@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class=""></div>I saw a high load (dozens of queries [1]) hitting one of my tools (catscan2). The queries looked like they came from a template on French Wikipedia (category name different, other parameters the same). Access log shows (among other things) Google bot. When I added that to my bot exclusion list in .lighttpd.conf and restated, the number of queries went, and so far stayed, down.<br class=""><br class=""></div>I vaguely remember that indexing bots (like the Google one) were filtered out by Labs already? If it does, was that query drop random then?<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,<br class="">Magnus<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">[1] <a href="https://tools.wmflabs.org//catscan2/server-status" class="">https://tools.wmflabs.org//catscan2/server-status</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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