Google is funny.

I A few hours ago, Claimed a site in google's web masters tools. One of the ways to do this is to add a file by a given name to the site. Well I added the file and finished the process. A bit later I took a look at the IIS logs and found this (slightly edited):

12:36:46 72.14.194.33 - ... 69.49.230.86 80 GET /GOOGLE[...].html   - 200 0 Google-Sitemaps/1.0
12:36:46 72.14.194.33 - ... 69.49.230.86 80 GET /noexist_[...].html - 404 2 Google-Sitemaps/1.0
12:36:48 72.14.194.33 - ... 69.49.230.86 80 GET /google[...].html   - 200 0 Google-Site-Verification/1.0
12:36:48 72.14.194.33 - ... 69.49.230.86 80 GET /noexist_[...].html - 404 2 Google-Site-Verification/1.0
12:36:48 72.14.194.33 - ... 69.49.230.86 80 GET /google[...].html   - 200 0 Google-Sitemaps/1.0
12:36:48 72.14.194.33 - ... 69.49.230.86 80 GET /google[...].html   - 200 0 Google-Site-Verification/1.0
12:36:48 72.14.194.33 - ... 69.49.230.86 80 GET /noexist_[...].html - 404 2 Google-Sitemaps/1.0
12:36:48 72.14.194.33 - ... 69.49.230.86 80 GET /noexist_[...].html - 404 2 Google-Site-Verification/1.0

Why the heck does Google need to load the same file 4 times? And why do they ask for another (nonexistent) file 4 times in a row. OK, yeah they have bandwidth to burn but it still seems a bit sloppy.