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If you game googlebot with different content
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No, that's not the issue. It's a mainstream site and we are redirecting, for example, US (and other non-UK) users from a UK site to the International site. We were trying to avoid search engine bots precisely so that they can still correctly index the first site.
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Google now crawls from international IPs as well, by the way.
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That's what I expected but I was proven wrong. Once we instituted the htaccess redirect for US users, Googlebot indexed our site with content from the site we were redirecting the US users to which tells me that the Googlebot was redirected also. I checked our webstats on the redirecting site and found the Googlebot IP is a US IP (Mountain View).
So for our redirect to work, we need to not redirect search engines (primarily Bing & Google).