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by riceo100 3350 days ago
Maybe "Googlebot" is a trademark, or maybe you are violating the usage terms the crawled sites have put in place by masquerading yourself... Could you get in to trouble? _MAYBE_? Seems like a stretch in practice though. I've come across people doing this to sites i've been an admin of relatively often, and unless you're crawling with enough intensity to cause a DoS or doing something nefarious with the content, most site owners would maybe roll their eyes and move on.
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A quick search of the US trademarks does not show "Googlebot" as a trademark.