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#1 Post by billy7720 » Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:57 pm

Did anyone know this bot is here? Just a post to tell you it's been frequenting this forum!

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#2 Post by Alastair » Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:57 pm

It's a web crawler that collects information about sites, this information is what Yahoo's search engine uses. Same with Google and Google [Bot] etc.

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#3 Post by Gunness » Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:40 pm

Exactomundo! Write some words of wisdom and they might just turn up in a search engine some day :)

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#4 Post by Alastair » Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:40 pm

"Words of wisdom"? On the internet?

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#5 Post by Gunness » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:05 pm

Yup! I even heard that all info you can find on the web is true, so there's no need to question any of it.

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