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[wingit]

Sometimes when I log in this is the message I see at the bottom of the main page.
Anyone know what it is?




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[Reddog]

They are little spiders that crawl the web theses are the ones that crawl thru here
Last Visit
Google [Bot] Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:52 am
Yahoo [Bot] Sun Aug 16, 2009 8:08 am
MSN [Bot] Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:24 pm
Baidu [Spider] Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:47 am
Alexa [Bot] Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:02 pm
MSNbot Media Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:51 am
Majestic-12 [Bot] Sat May 30, 2009 7:42 pm
Ask Jeeves [Bot] Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:41 pm
Gigabot [Bot] Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:48 am

They use to cause all kinda headaches with the forums, but the lastest version of php has made them behave.

[wingit]

Thanks reddog, but what is their purpose?

[Reddog]

Googlebot is the search bot software used by Google, which collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine.

[Sniper62]

yup