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My Computer
Posted 06 April 2014 - 03:00 PM
Whenever I am online, I check the "online users" at the bottom of the page, and there is always a user named "Google" online. You cannot click his name, and as far as I know he is not actually a member. Is there any explanation for this, is it a bug, or purposely there, or what?
7083 posts
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Tasmania (AU)
Posted 06 April 2014 - 03:14 PM
It's Google's web crawler. The forum software recognises it and flags it separately from other guests.
Web crawlers are bots which surf the internet automatically, gathering information about the pages they find. Google uses this information to run their search and cache services.
7508 posts
Location
Australia
Posted 07 April 2014 - 01:13 AM
This is why you can make a post and then approximately a max of 5 minutes later find it on Google.
3790 posts
Location
Lincoln, Nebraska
Posted 07 April 2014 - 04:57 PM
Intended feature of IP.Board. Also, reported numerous times before… Make sure you search before creating a new topic, please.