For the Forum Admin: What the..?

[SSWarlock]

Every now and then I get up early and poke around these forums. Lately, I've been seeing the following:

"Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot], SSWarlock and 3 guests"

What the heck is "Bing [Bot]"? Something to be concerned about?

 

[CosmicGamer]

Bing is a search site like google or yahoo. One of the ways they get the info for their searches is by using bots to gather data on whats out on the web.

Nothing to be concerned about.

 

[AndrewW]

Yup, just a crawler looking for information to add to the search engine's database. I've seen it before (different forum) with multiple google ones on at the same time.

 

[SSWarlock]

Very good. Thank you both.

 

[Captain Jonah]

Alternatively you could have an AI stalker that follows you around spying on everything you do that is called Bing and its minions are all called Bot :lol:

 

[SSWarlock]

Alternatively you could have an AI stalker that follows you around spying on everything you do that is called Bing and its minions are all called Bot :lol:

LOL. Sounds like the beginnings of a Traveller adventure!