Who is Google [Bot]?

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Who is Google [Bot]?

Post by Nighthawk_0973 »

I saw this under the whos online just recently:

Registered users: Google [Bot], Nighthawk_0973

Can anybody explain who Google bot is? I have a feeling that Google bot might be a Google spider, trying to index new threads and pages that come up on the forums.
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It's the Google search crawler. It enables Google to search the pages of this forum so we can search them using Google.
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ah, so it was the spider. Ok thanks paradox.

btw, did u get my PM?
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Nighthawk_0973 wrote:Can anybody explain who Google bot is? I have a feeling that Google bot might be a Google spider, trying to index new threads and pages that come up on the forums.
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Nighthawk_0973 wrote:I saw this under the whos online just recently:

Registered users: Google [Bot], Nighthawk_0973

Can anybody explain who Google bot is? I have a feeling that Google bot might be a Google spider, trying to index new threads and pages that come up on the forums.
I wasn't for sure. Just checking. :D
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Could have Googled it. :)
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not really, this is the kind of thing where you would regularly ask the forums, somebody could've named themselves Google [bot] plus, It was specific to this forum, since usually Google Spiders can't be seen when they are indexing websites.
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now I so Bing [bot] :D
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http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/?from=submenu
Basic Features -> Search Engine Spider Handling
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