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Jessica Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:04 am

I just noticed the Bots at the beginning of the userlist: Inktomi, Googlebot, Ask Jeeves, MSN. What are they all about?

EverettB Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:30 am

It means the search spiders are indexing the site

keifernet Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:31 am

EverettB wrote: It means the search spiders are indexing the site

Better call the exterminator! :P

vwjosh6070 Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:43 pm

is that a good thing??? :? :?: :? :?:

EverettB Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:47 pm

It's a good thing for the site because we will get more traffic from Yahoo and Google searches

vwjosh6070 Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:05 pm

aaahhhh.. so, its people searching the site, off site?? :?

Icy Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:38 pm

vwjosh67 wrote: aaahhhh.. so, its people searching the site, off site?? :?

Gotta attract noobs somehow, someway.

jeremysmithatshawdotca Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:14 pm

vwjosh67 wrote: aaahhhh.. so, its people searching the site, off site?? :?

No, it's an automated search by programs from the search engines, to catalog the contents of the pages, and check out incoming and outgoing links, etc. etc.. Later, when someone searches for a term, then a samba page might show up for that term.

Jeremy

EverettB Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:43 am

Yes, what jeremy said.

vwjosh6070 Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:08 am

coolio! thanks for helping me understand better!

jeremysmithatshawdotca Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:24 pm

Yeah, it's kind of neat. All the search engines try their best to keep exactly what they do and look for secret from each other, to try to get an edge over one another, and there's a whole industry related to trying to figure out exactly what they do, and manipulate the process, in order to place a site as high as possible in the search results.

Spezialist Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:32 am

and that must be the reason Jen just locked the rant?

notchback Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:02 pm

Here's everything you need to know about it:



http://www.google.com/bot.html

Jennepher Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:21 pm

spezialist wrote: and that must be the reason Jen just locked the rant?
I locked the rants thread because the question had already been asked and answered here. Hence the helpful link to this thread as explanation.

blankmange Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:04 pm

Icy wrote: vwjosh67 wrote: aaahhhh.. so, its people searching the site, off site?? :?

Gotta attract noobs somehow, someway.

they are bloody here, by God....



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