What Are Robots?

[LeadFootLiam]

When I check to see how many people are online, I see robots and they are viewing threads.

What do they do?

 

[Jordan]

They're search engine "spiders", crawling the site to index the words used on each page to be used in search results.

 

[LeadFootLiam]

They're search engine "spiders", crawling the site to index the words used on each page to be used in search results.

Thanks.

 

[watermelon punch]

Oh neat I hadn't seen that before. Thanks.'

(I got lured into this thread because of the intriguing subject line.)

That's a really interesting feature there.

But is it just me, and I apologize if this has been addressed already somewhere... is it just me that can't see who's viewing a thread on the thread? (I was starting to wonder if that was a browser thing, or a new forum thing.)

 

[Jordan]

It's not as feature of our new forum software, but may return in the future.

 

[Chiochan]

I was afraid of the robots, but now I am terrified of the robot spiders!