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Okay, the title may be jumping to conclusions but please help me understand this.

I noticed an odd referral today in my stats for this blog. It was for the search term [ip address 74.6.8.94], it seemed a bit strange so I checked it out.

The IP address 74.6.8.94 belongs to Inktomi Corporation:

Every one of my single post pages contain a little plug-in that shows the user’s IP address, like:

So it would make sense that the IP address of the crawler would be added into the text of the page and returned for search results.

The ODD thing however was that this search referral was from Google, with the Yahoo! IP address.

The Google Search for [ip address 74.6.8.94]

Returns one of my pages at the 10th spot, and clicking on the cache of that page shows the Yahoo! address stored in the cache:

To be sure this isn’t normal behavior the following thumbnail is for a cache of another page showing the Google IP address 66.249.65.100:

So the question I have is how does a Google cache get taken showing a Yahoo! IP address? I’m sure there is a logical explanation that I am just missing but I am hoping that somebody out there can explain it to me.

Added After Initial Posting

After I initially posted this I thought it would be a good idea to see if this one page was an anomaly or if other indexed pages showed the Yahoo! IP address, apparently the one I showed above is the only one. Note that the other two URLs shown are this post and the home page which were already updated in the index when I went back and checked.