Users browsing this forum: Yahoo [Bot] and 2 guests....?

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Just curious. What is a Yahoo[bot] and why is it browsing the forum?

[bsic]

Internet search engines send out spider "bots" that crawl the web and gather data for an index. This index lives on servers google, yahoo, or whatever engine- and is basicaly a local copy of the remote web site. So when you type in a web search, it's not actually going out and searchig the web realtime (that would take forever). Instead it's searchig it's own local index which is fast, and giving you links to the "real" web pages.

So what you are seeing is a search engine bot, reading our forum and making it available for yahoo search engine results.

[Strat-o-lux]

So, we're not under attack? Cheers!