Finicky Slurp and Greedy Googlebot?

Another one for the Mysteries of Search Engines Dept:

• Inktomi Slurp 12228+1177 93.13 MB
• Googlebot 9916+74 161.85 MB

Yahoo!’s slurp is visiting more pages than Googlebot. But Googlebot is using up more bandwidth.

Maybe Slurp is merely tasting the top of the pages while Googlebot is gulping them down whole.

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