Well, the Google Web Accelerator is back. Some people are completely panicked (again), and others are in full "tut, tut" mode. I don't know. I was kind of ambivalent about this 5 months ago, but now? I think I'm still kind of ambivalent. I see Bill de hÓra's point about how assumptions are what a lot of the web is built on - but at the same time, I see where the 37 Signals guys are coming from too. Still - Bill's more right - these kinds of bots aren't going away, and this is hardly going to be the last such thing running around on the web.