Robots Online???

[herbu]

Happened to be at the very bottom of a page and saw this:

Online now:
Total: 511 (members: 18, guests: 392, robots: 101)

What are these robots, and why are there 101 of them logged into the Audioholics forum?

 

[agarwalro]

The answer is 42.

 

[slipperybidness]

The answer is 42.

Yes. But, what is the question

 

[Rivmedia]

lol, They are not actually logged into the forum. The browse the forum, for example when google , yahoo and other search engines look through the site so they can judge if they should list the page in certain search results. Thats a layman terms or simplest i could think of with out getting too technical haha.

You can get a more detailed answer here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

Overall, its nothing to worry about and they are needed to help the site be seen.

 

[rojo]

I, for one, welcome our web crawler overlords.

 

[Rickster71]

Robots??
I thought that was code for when some members had their blowup dolls propped up in front of the keyboard.

 

[herbu]

Overall, its nothing to worry about and they are needed to help the site be seen.

Thanks. Wasn't worried about it. I like robots. Some of my best friends are robots.