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captain_insaino
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Post by captain_insaino »

Just a quick question.
Sometimes when i am browsing the forum and get to the bottom of the page to the place where it lists users that are online, and sometimes included in this list are "google[bot]", or "yahoo[bot".
I was just wondering what these are.
Many thanks :smt023
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Stuart Kirk
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Re: bots

Post by Stuart Kirk »

Almost BJ.

Bots are indeed automated programs, used by search engines in order to catalogue pages on the web and their content. The page has to be 'visited' before all it's content can be determined. Hope that makes sense!
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I have raised this with Sotic a while back but got no response, I'll see if I can find out any more.
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Post by tjs10 »

“Bots”, “spiders” or “crawlers” are automated agents most commonly used by search engines to update their databases. Since they rarely make proper use of sessions they can distort visitor counts, increase load and sometimes fail to index sites correctly.

Website admins can define a special type of user to overcome these problems, which are what you occasionally see at the bottom of the page as registered users.
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Post by sjwoodman »

For more information on the Googlebot, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebot

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