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A certain page on our website keeps generating entries like the following on our IIS6 logs:

2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707368055555 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707277777777 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707347222222 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707291666666 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707263888888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707326388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707437500000 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707451388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707340277777 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707270833333 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707381944444 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707284722222 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0
2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707201388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0

Doing a reverse dns lookup, these ip addresses making these calls seems to be a Google Bot. What does "workaround=" on this line mean?

We always seem to be getting "workaround=" calls on 1 particular page only, sometimes multiple times within a few seconds like this example. What is the cause of this and how can i prevent it?

This specific page does make AJAX calls via jQuery to a 3rd party service and they are reporting a spike in calls being made and I am suspecting this bot calls to be the issue.

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See stackoverflow.com/questions/2434445/… - I'd go with a robots.txt solution myself to prevent bots from crawling a specific page if it's giving problems. – stealthyninja Aug 16 '11 at 14:06

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