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The Google Thingy


MikeCottTrials

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can anyone tell me why sometimes if you look at the users that are browsing on the main page of T-F it says google.com in black, ive done a search on members and there are no members by that name the only thing i could think of is people are searching for T-F on google and for some reason its drawing up the main page under that name but again why would it display it as google.com :angry:

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The forum knows the IP's of all the spiders.. if it finds anyone browsing the forum with one of the 'bot' IPs it adds the bot to the online list. The other main one is the Inktomi spider.. which is for Yahoo.

i havent noticed the yahoo one, but thanks for answering was getting on my saggers

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Its not... those figures arent genuine. Its cos those bots we've been talking about occasionally swarm the forum, from about 100 seperate IPs, so the forum thinks theres 100 extra guests online. Thats also why I reset it every now and then. I think the highest genuine figure is ~280.

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surely theres a way to stop the forum from reading those buggers :angry: why though do they have names?when other guests dont

Cos other guests arent known search engine spiders :P

I could make it so they dont show up, but I like to know when theyre about 'cos its reassuring to know google is doing its job :)

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