Googlebot

[[B][O][T]]

What's it for?

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[dgmortal]

i dont know :huh: but i did notice that it was viewing member profiles. dont you have to log in to access that feature? is the googlebot a registered member. :blink:

[iMartin]

I know theres a Googlebot for MSN Messenger:

BotGoogle by Gondaba, [email protected]

This bot, just like GoogleMatic below, uses the Google API to search google and return the top five results. Hasn't showed up yet.

And theres GoogleMatic thats just the same:

GoogleMatic (officially offline) by Matt, [email protected]

Googlematic lets you search Google through your Instant Messenging client.

[[B][O][T]]

He's not in the members list anyway.... :blink:

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[uNz[i]]

The only googlebot I know of is the webpage auto-indexer program that automatically checks out a site that has been submitted for entry in the google search engine...

It looks for keywords in the header of a webpage so google can add it to the relevant search area... afaik.

Although this one sounds like it's doing something completely different. :huh:

*shrugs*

Maybe it's a riaa spybot in disguise? ;)

[Insanity]

Originally posted by Justsomeguy@4 July 2003 - 20:40
The only googlebot I know of is the webpage auto-indexer program that automatically checks out a site that has been submitted for entry in the google search engine...

It looks for keywords in the header of a webpage so google can add it to the relevant search area... afaik.

You are correct :)

[uNz[i]]

You are correct :)

Great! do I win anything? :lol:

edit:

I just did a google search for googlebot...

Find out more about Googlebot here (http://www.google.com/bot.html).

[[B][O][T]]

Ok thanks guys! Nice to have another bot on the board :blink:

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[VB]

You could also see Hot Bot, Ask Jeeves, Lycos, What U Seek in the members online list. Then they are just checking this board and indexing :).

But if this irritates too many people i can also deactivate the showing of them.

[denis123]

Originally posted by VB@5 July 2003 - 09:42
You could also see Hot Bot, Ask Jeeves, Lycos, What U Seek in the members online list. Then they are just checking this board and indexing :).

But if this irritates too many people i can also deactivate the showing of them.
VB, Iam not sure what you mean. Do you mean deactivate the showing of board statistics or the showing of that google is looking through the members profiles?

[[B][O][T]]

VB means He can take GoogleBot, Hot Bot, Ask Jeeves, Lycos and What U Seek away from the Online Members list.

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[denis123]

Thanks BOT, but he said he could deactivate "the showing" That is not the same as deactivating access. It does't really bother me.

[uNz[i]]

I understand why Googlebot would need to index the forum pages, topics, etc...
but why would it need to index member profiles too?

Seems a bit like overkill really

[infamousalbo101]

is [B][O][T] and actull bout or a real person i dont know did vb program it

[[B][O][T]]

This topic is going so Off Topic.... No joke! I'm human!

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