What are all the "Bots" in the who's logged in?

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paulmt
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What are all the "Bots" in the who's logged in?

Post by paulmt »

Haven't seen that until after the forum upgrade - just curious :)
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Re: What are all the "Bots" in the who's logged in?

Post by Mizery_Made »

They're bots for the search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.) which are crawling the board, indexing it for searching on their site. That's my understanding at least.
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Re: What are all the "Bots" in the who's logged in?

Post by DazB »

HI,

Mizery_Made is correct - with phpBB3 you can limit their activities.

Daz
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Re: What are all the "Bots" in the who's logged in?

Post by paulmt »

Thanks - I thought it was something like that :)
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