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  • V3T_ddrultramix3
    FFR Player
    • Apr 2007
    • 307

    #1

    Bots?

    Don't know where this could go, but...

    Has anyone ever taken a look at the last page of "Currently Active Users"? Sometimes, some of the usernames are "MSNBot Spider" and "Yahoo! Slurp Spider". Are these post bots? If not, what are they?


    , now!
  • ToxicShadow
    FFR Player
    • Jun 2003
    • 107

    #2
    Re: Bots?

    They're crawlers, used to gather webpages for search engines.

    oh

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    • bobman743
      FFR Veteran
      • Feb 2004
      • 28

      #3
      Re: Bots?

      As I understand it, search engines use bots to crawl the web and download every page they can so that the pages can be cached for searching. I assume that's what those spiders are for.

      edit: ohi tox

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      • ToxicShadow
        FFR Player
        • Jun 2003
        • 107

        #4
        Re: Bots?

        i hear they also occasionally make topics which contain links to very naughty websites :{

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        • bobman743
          FFR Veteran
          • Feb 2004
          • 28

          #5
          Re: Bots?

          i heard the google bot was personally responsible for stalin's rise to power

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          • ToxicShadow
            FFR Player
            • Jun 2003
            • 107

            #6
            Re: Bots?

            i heard hitler was secretly just a hologram created by microsoft

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            • stoners_netname
              FFR Player
              • Feb 2005
              • 264

              #7
              Re: Bots?

              O_o then what about his xbox live account?

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              • V3T_ddrultramix3
                FFR Player
                • Apr 2007
                • 307

                #8
                Re: Bots?

                Ok, question answered, thread over.


                , now!

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