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Forum software is set so bots from google etc are recognised and assigned a bot user role with no permissions - i.e allows them to read and index the site for search purposes, but nothing else.
The Continental Op wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 2:52 pm
Now we have Bing [Bot] eyeballing us.
Bingbot is a web-crawling robot (type of internet bot), deployed by Microsoft October 2010 to supply Bing.[1] It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Bing (search engine). It performs the same function as Google's Googlebot.
There's two weird usernames showing in a grey, bold, larger font. MSFT and Sergey I think.
If you click on their name nothing happens. As they look and act differently to other registered users I'm not sure if they're bots or something more sinister.
Guburnor wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:35 pm
Forum software is set so bots from google etc are recognised and assigned a bot user role with no permissions - i.e allows them to read and index the site for search purposes, but nothing else.
Allows them to 'read' what though? Posts, obviously - which anyone can do, registered or unregistered.... Apart from posts, what else can these bots read? PMs , Drafts?? Don't know what index the site means...