Our experience with Eve bears this out. Yahoo will hammer a board with tons of bot threads. Google is much more resource friendly and only uses one, or at most 2 bots. They generally come and go quickly, never staying long enough to pound your server into a lifeless pile of molten metal. I personally wish Yahoo was better behaved, there's no earthly reason not to be. The amount of resources they use, as compared to the results they offer, is negatively balanced.

I also wonder if you're running google ads and if that has an effect. I looked, Stan, but didn't see a threads on either site in your signature. The one site with forums that I could fine was an SMF and was indeed running google ads. I don't think they have to actively bot your site as much or as often if you're participating in their ad program, do they?

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