Fleet Ops Members

2045 posts

posted on January 3rd, 2009, 8:29 pm

I would just like to say, to all of those 36 guests that i see are online right now and are looking at fleet ops, itd be really nice if you guys could sign up and be able to contribute and talk to fleet ops.

Shril

Dev Team

1418 posts

posted on January 3rd, 2009, 10:45 pm

Hello GoogleBOT1!

Hello GoogleBOT2!

Did you meet googleBOT3 today?
Yes, five minutes ago he left fleetop.net

Great, every day the same...

Did you know there's a new evil BOT?

No...where?

*/w* Here on this board!

*/w* Why?

*/w* I don't know but he wants us to register!

Is it rayBOT320? [GoogleBOT2 link cut]

*/w* Oh no... I don't want to die!

posted on January 3rd, 2009, 10:50 pm

um, what?

Rhaz

907 posts

posted on January 3rd, 2009, 10:54 pm

LOL I GET THAT. XD

S'klar

502 posts

posted on January 3rd, 2009, 11:09 pm

lol, thats funny :lol:

posted on January 4th, 2009, 12:20 am

yeah i still dont get it, or see how its funny

KaBoom1701

26 posts

posted on January 4th, 2009, 4:13 am

Ray,

For anyone who has run a forum or web site knows the "on-line" guest are a combination of real peeps and goggle bots that comb the forums for key words and such.

Jan's remark was to reflect that.

Nothing more

KaBoom

posted on January 4th, 2009, 4:14 am

what are goggle bots?

Parris

36 posts

posted on January 4th, 2009, 4:17 am

Funny..

Tyrel

83 posts

posted on January 4th, 2009, 7:49 am

When i was a gaming clan's forum admin a few years ago we also had such guest, tho not so many of them, but usually only one which called itself google search spider.
This is a lot bigger forum than that was, so having more of these bots is self explanatory.

Basically, these are bots, some sort of an AI which skims all the text and titles all over the forum, in every post and looks for keywords it thinks are important. Then it adds links and copyes about what it found to the google servers. That's how google finds things, when such a bot is done with a site, then whatever you type in google search which is on that site, google will give you a link to it.

i.e.: let's say you posted something about how to fix an issue you had with Armada2 giving error code DHF47SFBVB346S, and tough to post it here to help others. If others search for it with google, they will not find it, yet. But ocassionally google bots come to these forums, one of them finds your post and examines the important words, adds it to google's main database and boom, there you are. People can find your helping post from now on.

Shril

Dev Team

1418 posts

posted on January 4th, 2009, 5:30 pm

They are a very nice invention, aren't they?

ray I just had an inspiration when reading your post. I couldn't resist :lol:

Google_Bot

45 posts

posted on January 4th, 2009, 6:03 pm

Hi guys, just registered on your forums... hope you like the name

Meredith

376 posts

posted on January 4th, 2009, 7:06 pm

Tyrel wrote:When i was a gaming clan's forum admin a few years ago we also had such guest, tho not so many of them, but usually only one which called itself google search spider.
This is a lot bigger forum than that was, so having more of these bots is self explanatory.

Basically, these are bots, some sort of an AI which skims all the text and titles all over the forum, in every post and looks for keywords it thinks are important. Then it adds links and copyes about what it found to the google servers. That's how google finds things, when such a bot is done with a site, then whatever you type in google search which is on that site, google will give you a link to it.

i.e.: let's say you posted something about how to fix an issue you had with Armada2 giving error code DHF47SFBVB346S, and tough to post it here to help others. If others search for it with google, they will not find it, yet. But ocassionally google bots come to these forums, one of them finds your post and examines the important words, adds it to google's main database and boom, there you are. People can find your helping post from now on.