What are those bots?

TheNightingale · Postby **TheNightingale** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 3:24 pm

Everytime the board index says that there are online users called "Baidu", "Bing", "Google" and "Majestic-12", but also says that they are bots. I'm not sure what they are. Their profiles cannot be viewed, they are always online, and them don't post anything as well. Any thoughts about them?

Emral · Postby **Emral** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:12 pm

Search engines have to crawl through websites to find search results in one way or another...

TheNightingale · Postby **TheNightingale** » Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:21 pm

Enjl wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:12 pm
Search engines have to crawl through websites to find search results in one way or another...

I was thinking something completely different about them (I had no idea that they are search engines; for some reason one of them is called "Google").
Thanks

Taycamgame · Postby **Taycamgame** » Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:11 pm

Surtur wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:21 pm

Enjl wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:12 pm
Search engines have to crawl through websites to find search results in one way or another...
I was thinking something completely different about them (I had no idea that they are search engines; for some reason one of them is called "Google").
Thanks

Google is a search engine which is why it is one of the bots.

Cedur · Postby **Cedur** » Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:29 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

TheNightingale · Postby **TheNightingale** » Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:45 pm

Taycamgame wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:11 pm

Surtur wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:21 pm

Enjl wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:12 pm
Search engines have to crawl through websites to find search results in one way or another...
I was thinking something completely different about them (I had no idea that they are search engines; for some reason one of them is called "Google").
Thanks
Google is a search engine which is why it is one of the bots.

I know, I wanted to say that for that reason one of them is called Google.
Sometimes I can explain something in the way I want because my english is very bad

And what means "Spider"?
(Baidu has Spider rank while the other ones have Bot)

Cedur · Postby **Cedur** » Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:01 pm

Read the article above, it says that "spider" is a synonym.

thunderlakitu · Postby **thunderlakitu** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:26 am

They are evil spy bots, they are trying to find and steal our chocolate cookies! we must stop them!

ThePieSkyHigh · Postby **ThePieSkyHigh** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:17 pm

Yea they are 100% search engines, but the SMBX forums, or the entire website doesn't use Bing as a search, if anything.

So.... This is a post to continue the thread!

More mystery, much

ThePieSkyHigh · Postby **ThePieSkyHigh** » Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:15 pm

What I mean is does SMBX even use Bing for it's search, or does it have to stay there in case somebody set their search engine to Bing, so then SMBX knows it has to load the Bing (Bot)

Am I right..?

Cedur · Postby **Cedur** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 6:47 am

all wrong

these bots crawl many forums in existence, it has nothing to do with any user's individual settings

PixelPest · Postby **PixelPest** » Thu Nov 01, 2018 12:27 pm

ThePieSkyHigh wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:15 pm
What I mean is does SMBX even use Bing for it's search, or does it have to stay there in case somebody set their search engine to Bing, so then SMBX knows it has to load the Bing (Bot)

Am I right..?

As Cedur mentioned that has absolutely nothing to do with it. When you use a search engine it of course has to collect data from as many websites as possible so that it can give you the most accurate search results. All these webcrawlers are doing is taking data from the SMBX website (post contents, etc.) for the search engines to use. (This isn't very precise or super accurate but that's the general idea)