Robots?

[stratman]

Just noticed the following:

Users Online Now

1. stratman,
2. cmyk

Total: 68 (members: 2, guests: 46, robots: 20)

What the heck are these "robots" and when did Skynet go active?? Are we talking Gort or Terminator here? John Connor and I want to know!

 

[PeterBJ]

I think most or all of these robots are benign. The"good ones" gather info about website content for search engines. I don't know if there are also "bad robots"? Without the robots you would get no hits for a Google search like this.

 

[3dogs]

If a person was to double click on "Users Online Now" you can watch the Robots peeking at what our forum is doing. Its almost as much fun watching that as watching paint dry!!

 

[stratman]

Without the robots you would get no hits for a Google search like this.

Nor would we have the NSA snooping on Frau Merkel's mobile phone.

I kid. All governments spy in some manner at some time.

 

[Nifty]

"Robots" are usually search engines like Google, Bing, Ask, etc. that crawl sites looking for relevant websites to provide people when they type in something like "printer forum" or "how do I unclog my Canon i560 inkjet printer nozzle?"

 

[The Hat]

@stratman I pie also..
Rob if you don’t know how to unclog your i560 by now I’d suggest you start up a Printer Forum..

 

[3dogs]

"Robots" are usually search engines like Google, Bing, Ask, etc. that crawl sites looking for relevant websites to provide people when they type in something like "printer forum" or "how do I unclog my Canon i560 inkjet printer nozzle?"

Damn and Blast!!
And here was me believing that they were following mwa!

 

[The Hat]

I think @stratman has stopped all of these pesky Robots in their tracks,
Most seem to have gone away.
It's safe to come out now

 

[stratman]

"Robots" are usually search engine

So more of the benign Mystery Science Theater 3000 type of robots.


@The Hat -- They're baaaack! Eleven of them and they seem to be following me!

 

[Tudor]

Eleven of them

I had to watch the Burnistoun bit again. I laugh like a mad man everytime I do.