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Randomly on the forums...

Postby zacharyz00 » Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:59 am

There are 2 bots named Google and Bing, respectively. What the fudge? Are there Google and Bing bots on every website? :|

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby zioy » Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:00 pm

zacharyz00 wrote:There are 2 bots named Google and Bing, respectively. What the fudge? Are there Google and Bing bots on every website? :|
They are search bots, auto-registered on phpBB forums. They help gain activity on the forums

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby Zeldamaster12 » Wed Aug 20, 2014 5:28 pm

These bots are on a lot of forums, pretty much every forum I've visited.

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby bossedit8 » Wed Aug 20, 2014 5:34 pm

Yeah, they are just collecting Informations so it is better to not bother with them.

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby MacheTheFerret » Wed Aug 20, 2014 6:06 pm

On a related note, what is Baidu [Spider]?

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby zioy » Wed Aug 20, 2014 6:07 pm

PaperPlayerX wrote:On a related note, what is Baidu [Spider]?
Basically the same, just a search spider gathering info

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby bossedit8 » Wed Aug 20, 2014 6:08 pm

PaperPlayerX wrote:On a related note, what is Baidu [Spider]?
Maybe this could help put to inform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby Zeldamaster12 » Wed Aug 20, 2014 8:08 pm

All the gray colored users who are un-clickable are bots.

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby zioy » Wed Aug 20, 2014 8:08 pm

Zeldamaster12 wrote:All the gray colored users who are un-clickable are bots.
Or spiders. Or whatever other type of search bots there are

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby Sevennights » Wed Aug 20, 2014 9:18 pm

Very interesting. Solves many problems

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby Zeldamaster12 » Wed Aug 20, 2014 9:26 pm

Same thing pretty much. :P

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby Sevennights » Wed Aug 20, 2014 9:42 pm

Indeed go sir... very much the same thing...

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby Mable » Thu Aug 21, 2014 4:03 pm

Did you know Google is also a Mod? This has been proved on knuxforum by a member.

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Re: Randomly on the forums...

Postby RudeGuy » Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:10 am

CaptainSyrup wrote:Did you know Google is also a Mod? This has been proved on knuxforum by a member.
He's the best mod in the world too.


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