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Online Members bug?

Started by Alice, 15 December 2013 - 03:14 AM
Alice #1

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Posted 15 December 2013 - 04:14 AM
As I popped onto the front page of the forums, I randomly looked down to see what users are online, and I saw this:

Google

It doesn't have a link, it just sits there…

Is this a bug?
theoriginalbit #2

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Posted 15 December 2013 - 04:22 AM
nope, its a bot. Google, Facebook, MSN, Yahoo, and a few other bots almost permanently sit on these forums indexing them.
Alice #3

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Posted 15 December 2013 - 04:23 AM
Thanks; reporting for lock.
MKlegoman357 #4

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Posted 15 December 2013 - 02:14 PM
What are those bots doing here? When I went to see what they are doing they were checking random user profiles.
Lyqyd #5

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Posted 15 December 2013 - 02:32 PM
The bot "accounts" show what the search engine crawlers are crawling as they index the site so it can be searched.
MKlegoman357 #6

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Posted 15 December 2013 - 02:41 PM
Oh, now it does make sense! I thought they were just gathering information about people because they are always checking user profiles.
Engineer #7

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Posted 15 December 2013 - 05:05 PM
MKlegoman357, on 15 December 2013 - 02:41 PM said:
Oh, now it does make sense! I thought they were just gathering information about people because they are always checking user profiles.
No, any page which exists on this forum. Eg. every post which is new since last visit of the bot, or new members
theoriginalbit #8

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Posted 15 December 2013 - 07:01 PM
Engineer, on 15 December 2013 - 05:05 PM said:
MKlegoman357, on 15 December 2013 - 02:41 PM said:
Oh, now it does make sense! I thought they were just gathering information about people because they are always checking user profiles.
No, any page which exists on this forum. Eg. every post which is new since last visit of the bot, or new members
Basically it means that you can Google for any ComputerCraft Forums post and find it, almost instantly after posting it.