Google downloads sitemap 2 times in quick succession

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Submitted by varun on Sun, 28/08/2005 - 2:55pm.

I installed the gsitemap module for Drupal to generate a Google sitemap for this blog a few weeks back.

Since then I have noticed that whenever downloads the sitemap it does so 2 times in quick succession. Generally there is a gap of 6 minutes between the 2 downloads but often it is 4 or 5 minutes also. I wonder why Google does this? What is it trying to do by downloading a sitemap 2 times...

My Drupal logs look like this...

gsitemap Aug 28 2005 - 2:54pm Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details
gsitemap Aug 28 2005 - 2:48pm Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details
gsitemap Aug 28 2005 - 2:48am Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details
gsitemap Aug 28 2005 - 2:42am Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details
gsitemap Aug 27 2005 - 2:42pm Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details
gsitemap Aug 27 2005 - 2:37pm Sitemap downloaded by Google. Anonymous details

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