Van Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Ok, please excuse this if it has been answered before (or is a stupid question)... I searched around the forums unable to find information on the user 'Google.com'... Everytime I sign on, I see 'Google.com' as signed in... but you can't click on the name I'm not sure if it's a bot or what, I'm just confused! - Van Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karath Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Ok, please excuse this if it has been answered before (or is a stupid question)... I searched around the forums unable to find information on the user 'Google.com'... Everytime I sign on, I see 'Google.com' as signed in... but you can't click on the name I'm not sure if it's a bot or what, I'm just confused! - Van Most likely a google crawler... by google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalamarko92 Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Ok, please excuse this if it has been answered before (or is a stupid question)... I searched around the forums unable to find information on the user 'Google.com'... Everytime I sign on, I see 'Google.com' as signed in... but you can't click on the name I'm not sure if it's a bot or what, I'm just confused! - Van The Google.com is Google "spider" who updates Google search database information with new keywords from forums. That bots may be administer from Admin CP in IPB. You can't click on its name because it (the bot) is not member of forums. The way it accesses forum (Guest, Registered Member, Moderator, Administrator) may be also set in ACP. kalamarko92 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 Oh ok, That makes sense Thanks guys! - Van Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1337 Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Every search engine (Google, Yahoo, Ask, etc) have their own "spider" which goes around the web to collect pages to build it's index. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karath Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I just wonder why they can't do it manually... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushroomz Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I just wonder why they can't do it manually... Because it would take forever. Not only does it index pages for search engines, these web crawlers will make a cache of almost every page they visit. You can also do a query on cache, lets say the page you want to view is not working, you can look at an old version of it with a cache. See: http://www.google.com/help/operators.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 sorry i can't help you out their Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantum Media LLC Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Well that answered my question, I always wondered why google was always on the active user list lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Posted July 4, 2007 Author Share Posted July 4, 2007 Yeah, me too... I was getting kind of suspicious - Van Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyougi Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Well that answered my question, I always wondered why google was always on the active user list lol It actively uses? My my, someone's gotta call the cops on 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AverageJoe Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Just wondering, how does the google bot help the spider? Does it kind of "pre-cache" the web page so the spider doesn't have to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantum Media LLC Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 If i am not mistaking the bot/spider are the same just two different terms. I know that they/it spiders or crawls your site, caching words, alt tags, img tags, links, etc. for the search engines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AverageJoe Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Yes, but how does the bot get the info to the search engine? does it "pre-pack" it for the spider, or send it manually? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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