Why OpenHose bot sharing IPs with Googlebot?

I was analyzing my server logs and noticed quite a few hits from Openhose bot. The user agent looks like this: "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OpenHoseBot/2.1; +http://ift.tt/1mrgZUM)"



URL http://ift.tt/1mrgZUM takes you to password protected page. The main page of the site has only 2 lines and it's about web analytics. I naturally decided to block this bot and looked at IPs. Many of the IPs are known spam bots IPs but one... belongs to Google and it...



Why OpenHose bot sharing IPs with Googlebot?



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