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Reading my server logs, I noticed 4 hits from Google with the Google Keyword Generator user agent.

64.233.172.1 - - [08/Nov/2009:14:24:20 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 4868 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google Keyword Generator; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
64.233.172.1 - - [08/Nov/2009:14:25:34 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 4867 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google Keyword Generator; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
64.233.172.1 - - [08/Nov/2009:14:25:34 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 4867 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google Keyword Generator; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
64.233.172.1 - - [08/Nov/2009:14:33:44 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 4867 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google Keyword Generator; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

What is this? Is it a new crawler? Is it Google or someone else with a different user agent?

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The IP 64.233.172.1 is assigned to Google, as you can see using a reverse DNS lookup or a traceroute tool, for example http://www.visualroute.it/vr.asp

I suppose:

1) One your competitor or potential advertiser was extracting keywords from your site using a Google tool:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal (AdWords)

http://www.google.com/sktool/

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2) It is a new google spider.

I don't find it in my logfiles, I see only this other one:

Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+Google+Keyword+Tool;++https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal)

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The user agent is from the Google AdWords Keyword Tool. Someone used the keyword suggestion tool with the URL of your site.

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