Who is Google [Bot]?

[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.

[paradoxnj]

It's the Google search crawler. It enables Google to search the pages of this forum so we can search them using Google.

[Nighthawk_0973]

ah, so it was the spider. Ok thanks paradox.

btw, did u get my PM?

[ardentcrest]

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'm html designer.

Could have fooled me!!

[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.

I wasn't for sure. Just checking.

[Allanon]

Could have Googled it.

[Nighthawk_0973]

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.

[Nighthawk_0973]

now I so Bing [bot]

[QuestOfDreams]

http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/?from=submenu
Basic Features -> Search Engine Spider Handling