Google [Bot]???

[ZZ]

I've seen "Google [Bot]" and "Yahoo [Bot]" online as "members". What are they?

If they truely are members, they should have the courtesy to post in the mew members thread... I'm just sayin'

[rhino777]

That sounds like somebody is allowing spiders....

[codewritinfool]

That's exactly what they are, spiders scraping content for the search engines. They are a necessary evil. They've always been here, just invisible until now.

[Thirsty Mallard]

What's a spider?

[DannyW]

What's a spider?

An automated script that search engines use to pull content from non-static pages like these forums. It means I can go to google.com, search for "thirsty mallard bn army" and get your postings. Try it! It's fun!

[Brew Engineer]

There's Spiders in here!!! Ewwww! I thought they were confined to the Rat Pad!


Sorry, as usual, I didn't have anything constructive to add...