Search Engine Bots Generating Strange Queries

In a general CMS app written in CakePHP I am noticing in my logs
invalid queries being generated by various search engine bots
including Google, Inktomi, and Yahoo.

What I'm wondering is WHY?

For example they are requesting

http://mysite.com/controller/view instead of the correct

http://mysite.com/controller/view/34 (ex: id 34)

Nowhere on my site do I publish any links to /controllers/view without
an id parm

This is driving me slightly nuts. Why would a bot request a URI it has
never seen?

My validation code that checks for valid requests logs these
occurences and every day I puzzle over my logs and examine the emitted
web page source wondering where or why they are requesting these
invalid URIs. I've been dumping $_SERVER and no clues there either.
The referer is always '/'.

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