Bots?

[V3T_ddrultramix3]

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?

[ToxicShadow]

Re: Bots?

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

oh

[bobman743]

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

[ToxicShadow]

Re: Bots?

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

[bobman743]

Re: Bots?

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

[ToxicShadow]

Re: Bots?

i heard hitler was secretly just a hologram created by microsoft

[stoners_netname]

Re: Bots?

O_o then what about his xbox live account?

[V3T_ddrultramix3]

Re: Bots?

Ok, question answered, thread over.