WE HAVE A NEW BOT!!

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WE HAVE A NEW BOT!!

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Nick it would appear we have a new bot!!!!

"MSNbot Media" ..........can you explain why this new bot has appeared behind the scenes?? :D :D
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It's a live search web crawler, a program that scans websites and indexes for 'tag' words or 'tag' images and puts them onto requested search results pages, like when you search for something in Google...

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GHOSTHUNTER wrote:It's a live search web crawler, a program that scans websites and indexes for 'tag' words or 'tag' images and puts them onto requested search results pages, like when you search for something in Google...

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Mmmnnn sounds a bit like "Big Brother" Kevin.
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Yes, it has similar elements. What the program is actually trying to do, is 'Crawl' all over our forum's program details, looking for names and /or images that match as close as possible to something typed into a search engine, such as Google. So if someone types...Matchbox Ford Cortinas...it will try and find as many images from websites, including ours, that have a close match and display these randomly as a block of images on the results page, similar to my image below.

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Gotcha!! Now i get it...........not sure i like it though, i feel like i have a stalker!!! :( :(
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It crawls our site for the latest content, basically it is an active indexer that keeps our content updated, so when a new topic appears it gets listed in the search pages.
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nickjones wrote:It crawls our site for the latest content, basically it is an active indexer that keeps our content updated, so when a new topic appears it gets listed in the search pages.
So its a friendly stalker! :?
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motorman wrote:
nickjones wrote:It crawls our site for the latest content, basically it is an active indexer that keeps our content updated, so when a new topic appears it gets listed in the search pages.
So its a friendly stalker! :?
maybe :twisted:
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