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what are these 'bots'

Postby Kakariki » Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:57 pm

once in a while I 'view who is online' and all I mostly see is me and a bunch f bots... very rarely another really member it seems. What are these 'bots' what are they doing and how are they 'reading' posts ?
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Re: what are these 'bots'

Postby Wolf » Fri Aug 28, 2015 5:59 am

They are the little programs that gather information for the search engines.
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Re: what are these 'bots'

Postby Michael » Mon Aug 31, 2015 4:57 pm

Yeah, it's just search engines copying the site to provide cached version in search results.
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