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> Silly Me, But What Is User Google

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> Silly Me, But What Is User Google, It's got me bamboozled
Sharron
post Feb 16 2008, 07:29 PM
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Topic titles says it all really. I keep seeing user Google online but the user name is not underlined. I see it in lastest click etc.

Is it a user name that was instituted just so someone could not choose it or is it a real live person somewhere?


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post Feb 16 2008, 07:29 PM
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It's the google robot wink.gif


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post Feb 16 2008, 07:37 PM
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QUOTE (karinne @ Feb 16 2008, 06:29 PM) *
It's the google robot wink.gif


Really? And it's emailing topic as we speak? Didn't know Lady Google could do that. And how do you know, is it their image bot or post nosy bot?


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post Feb 16 2008, 07:48 PM
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The reason it is showing up as emailing a topic because Google is not restricted from accessing that link in the robots.txt. If Google doesn't get told it can't follow a url by the robots.txt it just follows it.


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post Feb 16 2008, 08:22 PM
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Thanks for the explanation!


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post Feb 17 2008, 12:54 AM
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The reason you see him in the members area is because he is a user on the website, and instead of showing up as a guest we have put in a conditional statement which gives Google a name! wink.gif

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googlebot=Google
slurp@inktomi=Hot Bot
ask jeeves=Ask Jeeves
lycos=Lycos
whatuseek=What You Seek
ia_archiver=Archive.org


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post Feb 17 2008, 10:17 AM
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QUOTE (Jacob @ Feb 16 2008, 11:54 PM) *
The reason you see him in the members area is because he is a user on the website, and instead of showing up as a guest we have put in a conditional statement which gives Google a name! wink.gif

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googlebot=Google
slurp@inktomi=Hot Bot
ask jeeves=Ask Jeeves
lycos=Lycos
whatuseek=What You Seek
ia_archiver=Archive.org


Him? Google Bot is a woman! lol or Lady Google to be exact, she paid us a visit a while back here.


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