Someone at Google Is Mean (and Overpaid)

Like any other website administrator, I check my error logs every once in a while. Lately I'm getting some strange errors that lead me to conclude that someone at Google is mean and nasty or at least extremely bored. Over the past month or so, the Googlebot has come by Chumpy's old site looking for stuff that was never there. Most of these non-existent pages are mean-sounding. It's a bit creepy. The logs don't lie. Read 'em and weep:

Type: Page not found
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - 09:36
User: Anomynalous
Location: http://chumpy.charliehiphop.com/2006/10/19/terdiman_rosedale_resume/
Referrer
Message: 2006/10/19/terdiman_rosedale_resume not found.
Severity: warning
Hostname: 66.249.66.243

66.249.66.243 sounds familiar, could it be? Yup, that's Google, alright.

Why in the heck would the Googlebot be looking for a page called "/terdiman_rosedale_resume/"? It's like they're mocking the old /chumpy_langosta_resume/ page.

Then there was this one:

Type: page not found
Date: Monday, March 26, 2007 - 01:27
User: Anomynalous
Location: http://chumpy.charliehiphop.com/2006/07/20/talking_urinal/
Referrer
Message: 2006/07/20/talking_urinal not found.
Severity: warning
Hostname: 66.249.72.236

talking_urinal? Someone at Google regards me as a talking urinal? I don't see any other way to take that. Maybe I'm just sensitive.

Then of course there was this one, one of my favorites:

Type: page not found
Date: Friday, March 23, 2007 - 22:21
User: Anomynalous
Location: http://chumpy.charliehiphop.com/2004/10/19/super_guinea_pig/
Referrer
Message: 2004/10/19/super_guinea_pig not found.
Severity: warning
Hostname: 66.249.72.236

super_guinea_pig? That one's actually kind of flattering. I mean, if you're going to be somebody's guinea pig, you might as well be a super one, right?

There were others. website_crash was clever. Another weird slightly harassing action from Google is that I can no longer get to my homepage, google.com, from my home computer -- I get redirected to google.es which is fine so far as it goes, but I know that stuff like that doesn't happen by accident. What gives? I'd like to think it's just one underworked Google employee with personality issues, but in my more paranoid moments, I have to wonder if other Bush critics have endured similarly unsettling events.

It's always a bit disturbing, being harassed by some geek on a power trip, but it's bound to happen in cyberspace. When the geek happens to work for Google, it's more disturbing, though. Unlike the average rambunctious teenaged hacker, those people are smart. They can do serious damage. My pain and suffering over this are substantial, especially after all the good things I've written about Google.

WTF? Somebody at Google needs a project, apparently -- and a serious attitude adjustment.