617Dambusters

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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Registered users: Google [Bot], wingit

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.

Thanks reddog, but what is their purpose?

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.

yup