Nosey Yahoo Bot !!!

[wisewood]

I just looked at the "Whose online" page to see what you lot were up to, and found this...

http://www2.novaload.net/files/wisewood/yahoo_bot.jpg

Cheeky bugger's reading up on me lol

[Dpnova]

muhahahaha maybe there messing with ur rep

[wisewood]

best thing is thats all it looked it. it went away again a few seconds later.

[Dpnova]

big brother is watching

[Jack]

Yahoo is everywhere

*turns webcam to face the wall*

[wisewood]

we've had msn and google through a few times this week too. hope they've got more than one bot or they'll be very busy lol

[JSeymour]

someone explain, dont know this techno' stuff.

[burgo]

yes what is and do the bots do

[Jack]

Don't they scourge pages for their search engine listings?

[Dpnova]

they want to take away your identity

[wisewood]

each major search engine has a "bot" which is a program designed to read and document the contents of websites. If they find a link on a site to another site which they dont already have knowledge of, they add that URL to their database and send another bot to read that etc etc.

Much better than the old fashioned way of doing things. Very clever stuff.

http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active.html