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Who Is Online
« on: December 19, 2013, 02:22:52 pm »
When I look at the bottom of the Board Index page, I can see who's signed on to the forum.  One of the registered members signed on is Google [Bot].  I am curious.  Who/what is that?
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Re: Who Is Online
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2013, 02:32:22 pm »
It is a bot that is searching something on the forum, most likely somebody is looking for something on the web and the bot (just happened to be a google search) hit on something that matched in our forum.

Say I did a search on raising queens through a google search engine.
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Re: Who Is Online
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2013, 03:42:59 pm »
What I thought was interesting was that it was listed as a Registered User.
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Re: Who Is Online
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2013, 03:56:48 pm »
The software registers about 50 bots before we ever set up the forum. It helps get us on the search engines.
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Re: Who Is Online
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2013, 06:06:21 pm »
Got it.  Thanks  :)
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Re: Who Is Online
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2013, 06:12:57 pm »
Most forums set it so only the admins and mods can see the bots on who's online. We will do the same if we ever get a free moment.
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