I see that on the "Registered Users" list, there is "Bing [Bot]" and "Google [Bot]", and the names are in purple. What's this all about? I've never seen anything like this before, can someone please explain it?
EDIT: Now there's "Google Feedfetcher", also in purple.
EDIT 2: "Google Feedfetcher" is gone now, never mind. But still, what on Earth is going on...?
Bing and Google?
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Bing and Google?
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Re: Bing and Google?
I've seen them on other forums, but I've never known what they do.
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Re: Bing and Google?
Those are bots that crawl the message board and gather content to be indexed on their designated search engine. It's a good thing they're here. They help increase our page rank. Not that we ever needed help with that. =P
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Re: Bing and Google?
To add to what blade said, these bots have browsed this board for some time, however, they were hidden, only recently were they un-hidden. I noticed directly after mooncow brought the site back up, why they were un-hidden now, I don't know I personally have always preferred them to hide... But I do see that it shows how they consume website bandwidth...
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Re: Bing and Google?
What do you mean by "page rank"?
So far, I have seen Bing [Bot], Google [Bot], Google Feedfetcher, and Exabot [Bot]. Do they all do the exact same thing, or does each one have a slightly different purpose?
So far, I have seen Bing [Bot], Google [Bot], Google Feedfetcher, and Exabot [Bot]. Do they all do the exact same thing, or does each one have a slightly different purpose?
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Re: Bing and Google?
Google: Google search results.
Bing: Bing search results.
Google Feedfetcher: Google feeds (?)
Exabot: For a site relating to that (?)
Bing: Bing search results.
Google Feedfetcher: Google feeds (?)
Exabot: For a site relating to that (?)