Basic facts:
Search engines like Yahoo, MSN and google use spider software to search sites for information.
Invisionboard has the ability to show these spiders as users if the admin whishes to do so to make it easier to see where the spider is located at any time.
Though this feature can be turned off to save some power on the server as well as stopping people from asking what the hell those bots are I haven't done so.
The search engines you are likely to see are(the names are defined by the admin):
GoogleBot - www.google.com
M$_Bot - www.msn.com & www.hotbot.com
LycosBot - www.lycos.com
AskJeevesBot - www.askjeeves.com
WhatUSeekBot - www.whatuseek.com
There is a usergroup for those bots that prevents them from using posting & replying forms as well seeing hidden parts of the forum. In other words they are read only users so do not even try to contact them.
For more info regarding GoogleBot click here.
Search engines like Yahoo, MSN and google use spider software to search sites for information.
Invisionboard has the ability to show these spiders as users if the admin whishes to do so to make it easier to see where the spider is located at any time.
Though this feature can be turned off to save some power on the server as well as stopping people from asking what the hell those bots are I haven't done so.
The search engines you are likely to see are(the names are defined by the admin):
GoogleBot - www.google.com
M$_Bot - www.msn.com & www.hotbot.com
LycosBot - www.lycos.com
AskJeevesBot - www.askjeeves.com
WhatUSeekBot - www.whatuseek.com
There is a usergroup for those bots that prevents them from using posting & replying forms as well seeing hidden parts of the forum. In other words they are read only users so do not even try to contact them.
For more info regarding GoogleBot click here.