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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??

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...

Ghosty.

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...

Ghosty.

Mmmnnn sounds a bit like "Big Brother" Kevin.

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.

Ghosty.

Gotcha!! Now i get it...........not sure i like it though, i feel like i have a stalker!!!

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.

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!

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