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Aniki
09-17-2010, 07:30 AM
Go to Gamers Forum :: PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, Fighting, FPS, Video Games (http://www.gamers-forum.com/forum.php)

Now scrool down till the page/window where it says: 'What's going on?'

Look right below it. See the number of guests! Then compare them to the active users xD

Eheh don't be shy! Join!

Aparently is like this the whole time, but when I was navigating yesterday at night, I saw over 100 guest online. I thought that was a lot, but at the afternoon, I saw millions of guests!

ZOMG! xD
Charlotte
09-17-2010, 08:01 AM
lol I didn't realize that. XD
Diligence109
09-17-2010, 09:59 AM
most of those "guests" are just bots for various search engines or other services that are indexing the site (I think, to the best of my knowledge.) There aren't actually that many users (if any) lurking.
jango
09-17-2010, 10:23 AM
The truth that Dili is wary of stating is that they're ALL Linux .. after all, he IS the matrix ..
Diligence109
09-17-2010, 01:07 PM
The truth that Dili is wary of stating is that they're ALL Linux .. after all, he IS the matrix ..

WHAT ARE YOU DOING
NO ONE MUST KNOW
jango
09-17-2010, 01:20 PM
I have failed again .. no wonder he looks sad ..

http://th05.deviantart.net/fs19/150/f/2007/238/a/5/linux_matrix_by_takaju.jpg
LemonRising
09-17-2010, 02:02 PM
well there are some lurkers (some of them end up joining, some of them)
but yeah, mostly bots n stuff lol


it is still funny to see.
WE'RE JUST A SHOW FOR HUNDREDS TO WATCH
LiNuX
09-17-2010, 03:19 PM
They aren't bots...very small amount of them are bots. We have maybe 20-25 search engine bots.

Years ago, yahoo used to have thousands of bots and back then we could have up to 800 yahoo bots on the site but since then, they've changed it. They don't have more than a few bots on a site at a time.

But most of those guests are either actual people or regular bots surfing through the forum or something or getting blocked by our registration security, etc..
LemonRising
09-17-2010, 03:42 PM
ORLY? That's pretty cool then : D
HamadaLFC8
09-17-2010, 05:30 PM
By the way, this may seem like a dumb question but I'm not a computer pro...

What the heck do bots do?
Aniki
09-17-2010, 06:18 PM
I dunno! Can someone answer us? D:<
LiNuX
09-17-2010, 06:30 PM
By the way, this may seem like a dumb question but I'm not a computer pro...

What the heck do bots do?

Search engine bots go around websites and look for content to post on their search engine. Every major engine has them including google, yahoo, msn, bing, ask, and a few more. A majority of search engines use results from one of the top Search engines instead.

Without bots, it would have taken a very long time for the people at google to actually get a 1,000,000,000,000 pages indexed in their engine :)

The wonders of computers..

P.S. the bots are actual servers browsing sites...not robots. They can handle a lot of sites at the same time (not sure how many, could be dozens, could be thousands).
HamadaLFC8
09-17-2010, 07:57 PM
Ohhh... so they basically help add these websites to that search engine right ?
Sweet thanks for that Linux
Jaykub
09-17-2010, 08:31 PM
There all just google bots and such.
LiNuX
09-17-2010, 08:44 PM
Ohhh... so they basically help add these websites to that search engine right ?
Sweet thanks for that Linux

Yeah basically. They also update stuff. Because if you noticed, the google searches usually contain a small portion of a page in their description as well as the page title if it's relevant. The bots also help to update the info if they have changed.

And you're welcome :)
Charlotte
09-18-2010, 12:06 AM
Search engine bots go around websites and look for content to post on their search engine. Every major engine has them including google, yahoo, msn, bing, ask, and a few more. A majority of search engines use results from one of the top Search engines instead.

Without bots, it would have taken a very long time for the people at google to actually get a 1,000,000,000,000 pages indexed in their engine :)

The wonders of computers..

P.S. the bots are actual servers browsing sites...not robots. They can handle a lot of sites at the same time (not sure how many, could be dozens, could be thousands).

This one also have me.