The reason behind this is that Google uses a Bot called GoogleBot and most of websites which force users to register or even pay in order to search and use their content, leave a backdoor open for the GoogleBot because a prominent presence in Google searches is known to generate sales leads, site hits and exposure. Examples of such sites are Expert-Exchange, Windows Magazine, .Net Magazine, Nature, and many other sites around the globe. What if you could disguise as GoogleBot then you can also see what GoogleBot can.

How to Disguise as GoogleBot? It is Quite simple. You just need to change your browser s User Agent. To change your Browsers User Agent follow the steps given below: Copy the following code segment into a notepad file and save it as Useragent.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWAREMicrosoft Windows CurrentVersionInternet Settings5.0User Agent] @= Googlebot/2.1 Compatible=+http:// www.googlebot.com/ bot.html

Now Double-Click on the file Useragent.reg to merge the registry file into your Windows Registry. Now Restart your computer. This is required to apply the changes made into the Registry. Voila! Youre done! Now you have become GoogleBot.

How Revert back to Normal Agent? For IE users : To restore the IE User Agent, Follow the Given Steps Below: Copy the following code segment into a notepad file and save it as Normalagent.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWAREMicrosoft Windows CurrentVersionInternet Settings5.0User Agent] @= Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1 ) Now Double-Click on the file Normalagent.reg to merge the registry file into your Windows Registry. Now Restart your computer. This is required to apply the changes made into the Registry.

For Opera Users : Opera allows on-the-fly for switching of User Agents through its Browser Identification function. For Firefox users : Just download User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox. Now Goto Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Options -> Options. Click User Agents Click Add and fill the following information in the form Description: Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http:// www.google.com/ bot.html) App Name: Googlebot App Version: 5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http:// www.google.com/ bot.html) Platform: +http:// www.google.com/bot.html Vendor: Vendor Sub: Click OK. Now you may change the user agent on the fly.

Ths s gr8

It's cool!

Interesting info. Is this works on Vista?

Have you tried it?

I am sure he does not tried it because he usually try everything on others.