What are the bots' purpose?
What are the bots' purpose?
I am speaking about the bots that appear online. What are they doing?
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atomtengeralattjaro
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Re: What are the bots' purpose?
They are indexing the forum for search engines.
By the way, welcomesomeone on phpbb.com wrote:they are just spider bots which search engines send out to index the data on the web for listing in the search results of the search engine. When you search for something on google and it returns results, well those results can only be provides as Google has information on the sites listed in the results which is collected via bots. Even without the account the bots would spider the site/board but would show up as guests. Depending on permissions all they can do is index and cache the content for listing on search engines.
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ForrestKeys
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Re: What are the bots' purpose?
*shakes Vier's hand*
I like your name, but your avatar scares me, nice to meet you. You are now under the protection of asdf, congratulations!
I like your name, but your avatar scares me, nice to meet you. You are now under the protection of asdf, congratulations!
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Re: What are the bots' purpose?
His avatar is awesome... >.<
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