Identify yourself as Googlebot

Sometimes you conduct some search on Google and the engine returns a number of results, but when you try to open the ones that looks the most promising you get a registration page. One thing that you can do is click on the cached content to view the page directly from Google's cache. But what if you want to view another page from the same site, not present in google's cache?

Its evident that there are some sites that allows Google but not you. So why not disguise yourself as Google? Thats exactly what we will do by changing the browser's user agent to Googlebot. Copy the following code into notepad and save it as a .reg file:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Googlebot/2.1"
"Compatible"="+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html"

Now double-click the file to merge it into registry. In order to change back to the default user agent use this:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

To check whether you have sucessfully changed the user agent, type the follwing into the address bar and hit enter.

Code:

javascript(BrowserDetect.browser)

This trick is for Internet Explorer.
In Firefox, there's a different way to do it:

1)Just install the plugin(Configuration Mania) in firefox from this URL:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4420
2)Once done restart your firefox browser.
3)Go to Tools --> Configuration Mania
4)Click on UserAgent --> GoogleBot
Thats it,now you're a googlebot, no need of doing any registry changes.