Spidered by the IAEA

This is really odd. The International Atomic Energy Agency is spidering my site.

I’ve been keeping tabs on my logs of late to ensure the mp3 blog doesn’t kill my bandwidth and today I noticed something odd – 1,954 hits from http://www.iaea.org (see for yourself). Looking through the detailed logs it seems last night, between 11:23pm and 11:49pm, a bot from their server has accessed all my category and individual archive pages. This sort of behaviour isn’t odd – Google does this on a regular basis as do the more nefarious bots looking for emails to spam, and sites looking to boost their Google ranking the lazy way will sometimes hit the referal logs*. But the Atomic Energy Agency? The only reasonable answer is some spambot is pretending to be from there but the unreasonable conclusions are mindboggling…

*If you’re interested… Evil site puts a link to my site on it’s page, then clicks on said like a few thousand times before removing said link. Evil site appears on my publicly accessible referral logs. Because they’re public Google follows the links and, because Google gives my site a reasonably high ranking and the logs are on my site, passes on some of this karma to the evil site. It’s like comment spam only less annoying.