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halbe
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Google [bot]

Post by halbe »

Hello ,

About an hour ago I saw " google [bot] " registered as an user of this forum .
Can anyone tell me what this is :?:


Halbe
Ian Grace
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Re: Google [bot]

Post by Ian Grace »

Interesting. Sounds like a web crawler, but I have no idea how it can be registered as I have to approve every member. I just did two new members - Colin Johnson and Chris Wildey, but nobody else!
Will Grace
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Re: Google [bot]

Post by Will Grace »

The bot is a crawler, the forum allows these to enter through a back door of sorts, this allows parts of the forum to be available for search on Google, this leads people to the forum, but they are unable to read/write without actually subscribing!
Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.
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