I'm sitting here watching Googlebot 239 hit the site again — and again hang up on the same page over and over again.  I check my e-mail while I'm watching and get a message from Google that says this:

"Thank you for your reply. We've reduced the load on your servers. We apologize for any inconvenience, and we appreciate your patience. If we can assist you further, please let us know."

I don't know if I should laugh or cry.  I'm sitting right here watching Googlebot 239 bang away at the site like it's been doing for the last five days.

Are these people blind?  I mean, really, what the fuck is wrong with Google?  They don't have the ability to see what their bots are doing?

It's just very difficult for me to understand how a company that claims to be so technologically advanced can be so stupid, so blind, so clueless, so out of touch, and, more importantly, so unresponsive.

I responded with a snippet from the log file showing them 239 was still on the site and still hitting the same page over and over again — and it's hung mostly on a page that hasn't changed in two years.