One of the sites I run has user submitted content, and on those pages I have a link for reporting abuse. Pretty standard. At this point all it does is send me an email so I can go look at the page and verify if a TOS violation is on there somewhere. The link is inside a document.write() and it also pops up a confirm box to ensure the user actually wants to report abuse.

For the last two days Googlebot (verified by IP 66.249.65.112) has been hitting that link and evidently clicking ok... because that's the only way the abuse reporting script will load. I've gotten hundreds of e-mails the last couple of days reporting abuse and figured it was a scraper who had a javascript enabled spider or something. I just modified my script to also include the IP, UA, and Referer of the computer doing the reporting as to catch the scraper and ban the IP... and lo and behold Google shows up the next time I get the abuse e-mail.

I had to edit the script to redirect the Googlebot UA to my index just to keep from getting the spam in my inbox.

Am I missing something, or did Googlebot just start parsing JavaScript?