Google and others
Google is up to something. But it may not be just Google. I’ve seen an unusual amount of traffic from the crawlers in recents days, and not just a spike in numbers, but a spike in frequency, duration, and several other keys metrics. No idea what is going on … it’s been so crazy that even on some of my moderate traffic sites (like http://www.ka5cvh.com) the bot traffic has outstripped any other normal traffic.
Oh well, I guess if something shows up in the news in a week or so I’ll know it may be somehow related.
I’m seeing the same on my server. Google used to be one of the most efficient spiders and now it’s using a pretty rediculous amount of bandwidth. Maybe they’re creating their own version of web.archive.org?