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Adeline
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:46 pm

I want to know who that is. Yahoo Bot appears at the bottom of the board index page in the list of those viewing these forums. Yahoo Bot does not have a member number.

Samberg
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:47 pm

I noticed a Google Bot before too.

Taurus
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:49 pm

from what i gather, they are internet bot tools that make your sites show up in searches

Adeline
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:50 pm

I have seen Google Bot before also. Who are these bots? Strangely enough it feels creepy that there are bots spying on us.

Adeline
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:51 pm

Taurus, can you explain that a bit better?

Taurus
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:53 pm

no, i cant, i asked my friend a few days ago and she posted an explanation on my page though, i will see if i can find it

Slash
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:53 pm

They crawl through the internet to update search engines to my understanding.
Here's something I found about them:
" Search engines such as Google use them to index the web content, spammers use them to scan for email addresses, and they have many other uses."

Adeline
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:54 pm

Ok, I appreciate it.

Taurus
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:57 pm

Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp, and MSNbot and similar spiders, bots, and crawlers are the programs that harvest information for search engines.
For anyone tracking statistics on their website, Googlebot, MSNbot, and Yahoo Slurp can be welcomed guests. These three search engine bots gather (harvest) information about your page for their respective search engine. Seeing these spiders more often is also desirable because this means that you are being indexed more often and more likely to show up quickly in the SERPs (search engine results page).
A spider is nothing more than a computer program that follows certain links on the web and gathers information as it goes. For example, Googlebot will follow HREF or SRC tags to find pages and images that are associated with any given site. Because these crawlers are merely computer programs, they aren't always the smartest of creatures and may get caught in endless loops built by dynamically created webpages.

RoZ Zman
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:02 pm

That and the Google bot are for search engine indexing aka searching.

CountryDude89
YoCrazy

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Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:05 pm

They are web cralwers, aka spiders. Theu are indexing the forums.

KSamurai YoviIIean
YoSupporter

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Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:25 pm

I wonder if they've been playing since 08 and have lots of items

Bullet
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:26 pm

I like Bing Bot the best.

Adeline
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Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:53 pm

Interesting! Thank you so much for posting that. I really appreciate it.

Trish
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Fri Jun 20, 2014 12:09 am

Taurus (155142586) wrote:Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp, and MSNbot and similar spiders, bots, and crawlers are the programs that harvest information for search engines.
For anyone tracking statistics on their website, Googlebot, MSNbot, and Yahoo Slurp can be welcomed guests. These three search engine bots gather (harvest) information about your page for their respective search engine. Seeing these spiders more often is also desirable because this means that you are being indexed more often and more likely to show up quickly in the SERPs (search engine results page).
A spider is nothing more than a computer program that follows certain links on the web and gathers information as it goes. For example, Googlebot will follow HREF or SRC tags to find pages and images that are associated with any given site. Because these crawlers are merely computer programs, they aren't always the smartest of creatures and may get caught in endless loops built by dynamically created webpages.

I don't know that I care for that but there it is. Shrug.