Lt. Veers Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 I've expirience this a couple times: when I log in and I see the Online Members here, I see "Google.com" on the list. I searched and there was no member called Google.com, so is this an unregistered member online or is it something else? Or am I going insane? Quote
SlyOwl Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 google.com is the web-bot from google... ;-) Quote
Scouty Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 :-P . It's already been explained, so I guess this thread can be closed! Quote
Deinonychus Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 Web-bots...that's how it starts, next thing you know SkyNet is hunting us down in our beds at night...be ready... Quote
Hinckley Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 furthermore...on the old server we scripted our robots.txt file to disallow Google from crawling our site, now we've changed that, so it has a lot of catching up to do, so you will notice her around more often. her? *wacko* And yes, this has been brought up several times... Quote
Freddie Posted April 3, 2008 Posted April 3, 2008 How and why are Google a member of EB? I am still yet to see/notice any ads from them, altough to be honest I'd rather do without them. Please explain. Quote
Asuka Posted April 3, 2008 Posted April 3, 2008 How and why are Google a member of EB? I am still yet to see/notice any ads from them, altough to be honest I'd rather do without them. Please explain. *click* On candystripe legs the spiderman comes Softly through the shadow of the evening sun Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead Looking for the victim shivering in bed Searching out fear in the gathering gloom and Suddenly! A movement in the corner of the room! And there is nothing I can do When I realise with fright That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight! ;-) Quote
trooperdavinfelth Posted April 3, 2008 Posted April 3, 2008 Another one of these threads? Not to be pessimistic, but I can't see this thread staying open much longer. It's already been explained in the thread for the new template and such that it's just a crawler. It crawls around EB looking for a place to plant its ads; fortunately, EB is protected and its crawlings are in vain. *sweet* Quote
Deinonychus Posted April 3, 2008 Posted April 3, 2008 And the threads will keep appearing until we recognize the seriousness of the coming uprising of the machines. Start filling your basements with food, water, and armor-piercing incendiary rounds. When the Hunter/Killers come for you in your sleep, you must be ready! 8-| Quote
UniqueBuilder Posted April 3, 2008 Posted April 3, 2008 It crawls around EB looking for a place to plant its ads; fortunately, EB is protected and its crawlings are in vain. *sweet* Eh, what? X-D It's just Google's "spider" bot that looks for information to archive in the search engine.. Quote
Siegfried Posted April 3, 2008 Posted April 3, 2008 Well, I think this has been answered well enough. Quote
Stealth Hunter Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 While looking at the list of online members,I saw one called Archive.com,which was not selectable like the google one discussed in this thread. My question is: Is this web bot supposed to be here or is it an intruder? Quote
Siegfried Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 Honestly mate, don't stress. It's a bot. There are a lot of bots. Ask Jeeves, Lycos.com, Google.com, Hot Bot, Lycos.com, What You Seek... The fact that you can't select it shows that it is a known bot. Do we have to turn off this feature to stop people making topics over it? (Yes we can do this.) Quote
SlyOwl Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 But what are the advantages of these bots? Do you get money from them? Quote
Siegfried Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 But what are the advantages of these bots? Do you get money from them? Sort of. They index the site and that can bring more visitors. Archive.com in particular stores snapshots of most websites for archive purposes, which you can view on the Wayback Machine. This page in particular is interesting, especially if you click on "Staff" Quote
Faramir Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 Sort of. They index the site and that can bring more visitors. Archive.com in particular stores snapshots of most websites for archive purposes, which you can view on the Wayback Machine. This page in particular is interesting, especially if you click on "Staff" Woah, it's so... OLD! Who are those other admins? Have they just stopped posting as much now, or have they gone away entirely? That's pretty cool how they took shots of that. This site really has advanced a lot since then! <Faramir-< Quote
SlyOwl Posted April 13, 2008 Posted April 13, 2008 Who are those other admins? Have they just stopped posting as much now, or have they gone away entirely? Some are WAGs...with only around 10 posts each... Quote
Eurobricks Emperor Bonaparte Posted April 13, 2008 Eurobricks Emperor Posted April 13, 2008 This page in particular is interesting... That is so funny Quote
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