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Google [Bot]

Postby Maj.Gen.Asty » Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:13 pm

I notice at the bottom of the Forums page where it shows the current users online once in a while I see "Google [Bot]" as a user. Is that actually Google doing its Internet trolling thing? It's interesting it has a login name for the site which I found somewhat disturbing. Does Google somehow have universal access to all phpBB boards? Curious.
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Re: Google [Bot]

Postby Col.Hydra » Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:06 pm

Google Bot is a Crawler, it searches the forum for updates and new threads ,etc so when someone Search "SRRP Google Bot" this thread will show up.
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Re: Google [Bot]

Postby Gen.Jersey » Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:19 am

Correct.

GoogleBot has read-only access to the public forums (same as an unregistered visitor). The private forums which are viewable only by SRRP members are not accessible to Google or any other search engine.

It is an automated program which follows the links on each page and indexes their content. The results are used by Google to determine what sites show up for each specific search. Since sites are constantly updated with new content, Google needs to visit each site often in order to keep up.

GoogleBot does not actually have a forum account, but it is possible for the server to determine when it is accessing the site, and it is shown as an "active user".
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