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Whats a GOOGLE BOT?
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:49 am
by bembokabellettbloke
I have seen in the online members section a few times listed......google bot
what does that mean????....sorry Im just curious
thanks all 
Re: Whats a GOOGLE BOT?
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:03 pm
by dave
Yeah guys I didn't know either but Antus explained it to me. It is Google indexing us so when people search Google for "bellett" we end up being one of the sites that gets found!
Apparently we may also see Yahoo[bot] as well but I'm yet to see that one....
So yeah, Google shows up as a user when we're looking at the forum and the forum program is smart enough to know what it is.
If I've explained this wrong I'm sure Antus will get it right, but I wanted to explain it without getting too technical (coz I can't!).
Cheers,
Dave
Re: Whats a GOOGLE BOT?
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:37 pm
by antus
yeah thats it, anything with [bot] after the name is some kind of automated program aka bot doing its thing.