Google bot, yahoobot. What are bots?

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Hanger55
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Google bot, yahoobot. What are bots?

Post by Hanger55 » 28 Jun 2014, 02:49

I've seen them in many forums and servers, I've always wondered what were their purpose? I've only gotten "they're bots, robots" Never really answers my question unless they're just robots doing jack all. Anyone want to let me in on what the bots do?


(look at the bottom of the page and you'll see players logged in and sometimes a bot)

Ever switch tabs to check on something and exit out the tab you were on when you go to switch back? That sucks.....


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Re: Google bot, yahoobot. What are bots?

Post by Executioner » 28 Jun 2014, 04:09

They are web crawlers, used to keep web content updated on search engines.

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Re: Google bot, yahoobot. What are bots?

Post by Krevente » 01 Jul 2014, 09:00

Some bots will look for known vulnerabilities in forms, forums and other scripts to generate those canned posts posing as users to advertise random crap. They'll do the same on different e-mail sites like yahoo and hotmail to get access and send out spam.

Legit bots like Yahoo, Google, etc. are your friend to make sure search engines index the internet for search results. The other kind are why we can't have nice things.

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