Has GoogleBot Gone A Little Crazy?

For the past 4 days I have been getting the following error on my PickRent.com site:

Error on Page: http://www.pickrent.com/rentals/colorado/colorado-springs.cfm/ param: startRow=fdwjcymeklfnnz or startRow=dwpgddhufcgxz or startRow=rfdnvdpwhjoyrvc

Referral Page:

User’s IP: 66.249.68.170

Server Port: 80

Error Date: 6/21/09 3:40 PM

User’s Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

What is really odd is the trailing “/” at the end of the “.cfm”. Also odd is the URL parameter of “startRow=fdwjcymeklfnnz” which doesn’t exist. Only numbers can be used on that parameter.

I checked the IP address and it does belong to GoogleBot, but I have no idea where it is getting these random URL’s from. Perhaps it is going crazy or someone is linking to it that way.

I have fixed the issue now so it redirects home if this happens again, but I would love to know what caused this.