Search Engine[Bots] in the Forums

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Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:28 am

  • So in the "Users using this Forum" I occasionally see Google[bot], Yahoo[Bot], and Bing[Bot]. What are they? Do they search through the forum to add to their search que, like searching for key words and what not?
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Wed Dec 09, 2015 11:20 am

  • I believe so. They're crawling websites for content, so they can index them for their search results.
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Wed Dec 09, 2015 11:49 am

  • stefan wrote:I believe so. They're crawling websites for content, so they can index them for their search results.


    Excellent! I thought as much! Still a little spooky seeing their presence. :o
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Wed Dec 09, 2015 12:16 pm

  • So what is the Baidu[spider] doing?
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