Mar(c) Report post Posted July 29, 2005 The web knows of our existence... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sirdan Report post Posted July 29, 2005 meh i noticed that a month ago Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RolandR1 Report post Posted July 29, 2005 google is the new big brother Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scarr Report post Posted July 29, 2005 was posted b4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Acelon Report post Posted July 30, 2005 I'm still wondering why I see that every so often. Maybe something like someone uses google to search for the forums and when the access it as a guest, it shows up like that? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
falcon2330 Report post Posted July 30, 2005 I'm still wondering why I see that every so often. Maybe something like someone uses google to search for the forums and when the access it as a guest, it shows up like that? 184072[/snapback] if thats the case... then its my fault lol, i always use google to get here.. and i always wind up having to re-log into the forums lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LightKeeper Report post Posted August 20, 2005 From what I've been told . . . google uses a bot to "crawl" through the sites and get information. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PolkaDot Report post Posted August 20, 2005 Some thing like this needs to be pinned, because I see one of these threads every single day. Google creates spiders to go around and index different sites, so when you search, it would come up in the search. make sense? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dlerch Report post Posted August 21, 2005 Google and several other search engines use spiders to search sites and index them. It can be stopped but the command in the header escapes me. I think it is <no index> but I cannot remeber exactly and am too lazy to look it up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mar(c) Report post Posted August 21, 2005 That's with a meta tag: <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> Btw, other threads about the subject: This Is Weird... (in Miscellaneous) Google Is On The Fourm? (in Help Me ) google.com user? (in Miscellaneous) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ttlanhil Report post Posted August 22, 2005 and also docroot:/robots.txt you can set what areas the spider is supposed to be allowed to look at, and what it isn't Share this post Link to post Share on other sites