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Post by 15755 2008-05-25, 23:35

sorry to waste a post on a stupid question but I was wandering what the google and yahoo bots are on this website for? what do they do? Question scratch
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Post by Shemuel 2008-05-26, 08:40

Basically they search out info on the forum and look at what searches we make -I think.
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Post by me naam is m 2008-05-26, 11:27

ehm... half true. they index the forums, so when you search for, say, "broken mirror 3 ship thoughts" they will direct you to tis forum.

basically, what they do is bringing search hits! free advertising, basically.
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Post by Meganew Trek 2008-06-09, 19:04

No offence, but you forgot the MSN bot that sometimes appears.
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Post by paulwall99 2008-06-09, 22:10

ye all they do is when you do a google or yahoo or msn search for somthing like say flashtrek it will biring you to this forum or other forums
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Post by Shemuel 2008-06-10, 08:54

We forgot Altavista as well
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