What does it mean when the 'online' viewers are listed as "Google AdSense Spider" or "MSNBot Spider" or something similar - what is the difference between them and a regular "guest" please ??
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Posted 13 August 2006 - 08:54 AM
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Posted 13 August 2006 - 09:01 AM
This was explained by Chris on another thread 
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Originally Posted by dixiesquare
The who is online page shows everybody and everything that is currently browsing the site. But now instead of saying:
bbcentral
dixiesquare
Guest
Guest
Guest
Guest
Guest
Guest
Guest
Guest
it says
bbcentral
dixiesquare
Google
Yahoo
Guest
Guest
Guest
MSN
Google
So we can tell it's not a human looking at the site, it's a search engine 'spider' crawling the pages. That's how search engines work, their spiders visit every page of every website, and build a list of all the words on each page so that if someone searches for those words, the page will come up in the search results. So if you make a post that says "my name is 777123", and then search for it right away in Google, nothing will come up. But then if you wait a few days for the Google Search Spiders to crawl that page, and then search again, the post will appear.
To put it simply, just ignore the spiders in the list. The number of real humans online are the number of members and the number of guests
Originally Posted by dixiesquare
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on the who is on line portion why are there now people with these names instead of guest ? is this normal now ?
The who is online page shows everybody and everything that is currently browsing the site. But now instead of saying:
bbcentral
dixiesquare
Guest
Guest
Guest
Guest
Guest
Guest
Guest
Guest
it says
bbcentral
dixiesquare
Yahoo
Guest
Guest
Guest
MSN
So we can tell it's not a human looking at the site, it's a search engine 'spider' crawling the pages. That's how search engines work, their spiders visit every page of every website, and build a list of all the words on each page so that if someone searches for those words, the page will come up in the search results. So if you make a post that says "my name is 777123", and then search for it right away in Google, nothing will come up. But then if you wait a few days for the Google Search Spiders to crawl that page, and then search again, the post will appear.
To put it simply, just ignore the spiders in the list. The number of real humans online are the number of members and the number of guests
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Posted 13 August 2006 - 09:07 AM
Sorry for not checking back first before asking - but thanks for the answer, fascinating !!
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Posted 18 August 2006 - 09:45 AM
that's cool.
cyber spiders crawl over bbc
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Posted 24 May 2007 - 01:38 PM
Is this actually "news"?
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Posted 24 May 2007 - 09:20 PM
Nope, and now it's moved to a more appropriate forum.
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