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Puppy_Zwolle

What's 'ask jeeves' doing here as a registered visitor?

**Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:35 pm

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Phaedra

This would probably be better-placed in the "General" forum in the Administration section.

The bots for various search engines are all registered.

**Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:34 pm

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Giskard

As you can see here, Phaedra is right. They have a seperate status as "bot" as well, as you can see from the unFiction main page, all the way down at the bottom.

Having said that, I'm moving this to the General forum...

**Posted:** Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:27 pm

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Puppy_Zwolle

Live and learn.

Any sugestions as to where I can find out more about these bots and why they are registered?

**Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:23 am

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vpisteve

When you PM them you get interesting responses.

OK, not really.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:13 pm

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aliendial

Isn't that so they can index the site for their search engines?

**Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:17 pm

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SpaceBass

Spiders are generally allowed to index the site anyway. Mainly, it's to separate out those known bots from the anon/guest statistics.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:58 pm

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Nightmare Tony

How would you stop bots from indexing your site? Perspiring minds want to know.

**Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:23 pm

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Giskard

Well, for forums like this, that wouldn't be very hard... just give unregistered guests no rights whatsoever, and spiders/bots won't be able to access it.

**Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:46 pm

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aliendial

unless they gets accounts like we did here...

**Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:45 pm

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SpaceBass

Polite spiders will respect the instructions in a robots.txt file placed in the root of your website.

**Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:47 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:04 am

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thebruce

'polite spiders' I like Cool

**Posted:** Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:43 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:17 pm

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