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What is "Google [Bot]"?
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 8:44 pm
by Andrew D
And why is it a registered member?
Re: What is "Google [Bot]"?
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 9:11 pm
by Reality Bytes
It's a search engine spider and it's not exactly a registered member even though thats how it shows up on the users list, it's the way the software functions, it "recognises" most of the known spiders and we can control via the admin panel what the bots are allowed to see and do on the forum individually - so for example we could let google look at one page but stop yahoo doing the same if we so wished (which we wouldn't) by being "friendly" to the spiders we'll start to appear on the search engine pages.
Re: What is "Google [Bot]"?
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 10:05 pm
by Gob
Do "bots" enable other people to find the forum, as in making us available on google searches?
Re: What is "Google [Bot]"?
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 10:19 pm
by Crackpot
6th link for "plan b forum" on Google.
Re: What is "Google [Bot]"?
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 11:53 pm
by Reality Bytes
Gob wrote:Do "bots" enable other people to find the forum, as in making us available on google searches?
Yes thats exactly what they do.
Re: What is "Google [Bot]"?
Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 12:11 am
by Gob
Good stuff then!