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Y0UNGW00 · **Post subject:** What is a [Bot]? **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:09 am

Registered users: Bing [Bot], DarkerJ, Google [Bot], MSNbot Media, PlyrStar93, Wumbowalrus, Y0UNGW00
I saw this and there are 3 bots right now. I want to know what really "BOT"s are.

Patrick · **Post subject:** Re: What is a [Bot]? **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:21 am

Y0UNGW00 wrote:

Registered users: Bing [Bot], DarkerJ, Google [Bot], MSNbot Media, PlyrStar93, Wumbowalrus, Y0UNGW00
I saw this and there are 3 bots right now. I want to know what really "BOT"s are.

These are search indexing bots...they index our website so they appear on web searches.

Zv45Beta · **Post subject:** Re: What is a [Bot]? **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 3:16 am

I didn't know that!

john11 · **Post subject:** Re: What is a [Bot]? **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:00 am

They aren't even allowed to search the forums...

I just wonder how many posts they have *hehe*

Gamma · **Post subject:** Re: What is a [Bot]? **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:13 am

How many topics are people allowed to start in a given time frame? I don't really care, but as of now you have 7 topics started out of the 25 in the recent topics on BA's front page. I'm just curious if there is any rule on that. Not that it bothers me or anything.

john11 · **Post subject:** Re: What is a [Bot]? **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:21 am

Gamma wrote:

How many topics are people allowed to start in a given time frame? I don't really care, but as of now you have 7 topics started out of the 25 in the recent topics on BA's front page. I'm just curious if there is any rule on that. Not that it bothers me or anything.

I only see 4 started by Y0UNGW00.

I wouldn't think there is a rule for the number, just on the content. Eg. if you make 7 topics about the same thing, when you could have just made one, or you make 7 useless topics, then I would hope its a problem. Else I don't think it should be a problem.

z180 · **Post subject:** Re: What is a [Bot]? **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:30 am

By using Yacy written in Java and being FOSS you can set up your own search engine server complete with a web crawler.

john11 · **Post subject:** Re: What is a [Bot]? **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:16 am

z180 wrote:

By using Yacy written in Java and being FOSS you can set up your own search engine server complete with a web crawler.

Why would you do that?

SotirisMichail · **Post subject:** Re: What is a [Bot]? **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:03 pm

john11 wrote:

z180 wrote:

By using Yacy written in Java and being FOSS you can set up your own search engine server complete with a web crawler.

Why would you do that?

Because you might want to create a search engine for your site 8-)

mrpijey · **Post subject:** Re: What is a [Bot]? **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:30 pm

Or just use Google?

Enter this in the google search field if you want to search only on betaarchive.com

Code:

site:betaarchive.com: foo

where foo is what you want to look for... Why reinvent the wheel yet again?

The Distractor · **Post subject:** Re: What is a [Bot]? **Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:40 pm

no need for the second colon at the end,

Code:

site:betaarchive.com foo

is enough..

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