What is??

Skinny rooster · Post by **Skinny rooster** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 11:31 am

At the bottom of the screen it says "who is browsing" then it will say our username or guest but it will also say google bot or some other bot, sounds a little spooky, what is that?

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 11:56 am

the google n other bots are seaching our forum and making our site searchable from google, ect. we can pic n choose which bots we allow, I seen one that said MJ12, and threw me through a loop. you can look up what they are to see if they are malicious n what not in order to not allow them ect.

at least thats how I understand it. Poultry Admin will know a lot more about it.

they are good because they bring more members to join the forum.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 12:00 pm

see right now Bing is putting this thread into there searchable database.

Skinny rooster · Post by **Skinny rooster** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 12:11 pm

Ok so I can take the tinfoil hat off then.... right?

Lol thanks for the explanation.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 12:35 pm

I dont know i like to keep my tinfoil hat on. HAHAHAHA

Ya no problem at all.

Post by **WLLady** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 1:36 pm

LOL. they are computer programs that run around the www and basically catalogue the site by keywords etc so that we show up in a search. When you go to www.google.ca or yahoo and search for something their search results depend completely on what sites the bots (google has a google bot, yahoo is yahoo bot, bing is bing bot) have found and indexed.

yep there are some bad apples out there, which we bar from access....they're basically a virtual cataloguing system for the search engines.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 1:54 pm

now thats a much better explanation!