Who The?

[KickinWing]

I'm sorry if this is retarded but I can't hold it in anymore.

At the bottom of the page that list all the different forums there's usually a list of all the users online at the time. Lately i've seen "google.bot" and now there's "archive.org" what are these?

 

[Horscht]

Those are "bots" from google and arvhive.org. Googlebot is there, whenever a Result found by google is from GP32x. The same goes for archive.org, which allows you to visit "cached" versions of GP32x an other websites.

 

[Rico]

Half-right. Googlebot scans the web grabbing copies of pages which it uses in the search. Archive.org also grabs copies of the page for, er, archiving. In both cases if there is a visitor to the site who is one of those bots, they appear on the users list as such. It has nothing to do with human users, though.

 

[c0ncept]

I'm soooo glad someone else finally asked. I've been half-wondering for a while

 

[WhizzBang]

What's a bot?

 

[c0ncept]

an automated program designed to do a task such as d/l content on IRC

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Definitive explanation:

Google had to find a way of making their search engine faster and more accurate than anyone else’s, so what they came up with is this.

They wrote a program, which trawls the whole of the web, downloading every webpage it finds, this program is the actual Google bot itself.
These web pages are then scanned for keywords, Meta data and links to other web pages. The links are the important bit as it's sort of like a vote for a page. i.e. if you had two WebPages on the net all about Aerobics, one of them will have more links to it from other peoples web sites on the net. Google then count up the links, the site with the more links to it is obviously more popular, and very likely to be more of what you were searching for.

People caught on to this and started to progressively create fake domains that had loads of links to their client’s websites so they would get higher in the search list. Google didn’t like that as it's cheating, so they regularly tweak their search algorithm to prevent companies fooling their engine!.

Hope all that made sense?

 

[Talyz]

Definitive explanation:

Google had to find a way of making their search engine faster and more accurate than anyone else’s, so what they came up with is this.

They wrote a program, which trawls the whole of the web, downloading every webpage it finds, this program is the actual Google bot itself.
These web pages are then scanned for keywords, Meta data and links to other web pages. The links are the important bit as it's sort of like a vote for a page. i.e. if you had two WebPages on the net all about Aerobics, one of them will have more links to it from other peoples web sites on the net. Google then count up the links, the site with the more links to it is obviously more popular, and very likely to be more of what you were searching for.

People caught on to this and started to progressively create fake domains that had loads of links to their client’s websites so they would get higher in the search list. Google didn’t like that as it's cheating, so they regularly tweak their search algorithm to prevent companies fooling their engine!.

Hope all that made sense?

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The most understandable explanation of them all!

 

[WrongEyedJesus]

Definitive explanation:

Google had to find a way of making their search engine faster and more accurate than anyone else’s, so what they came up with is this.

They wrote a program, which trawls the whole of the web, downloading every webpage it finds, this program is the actual Google bot itself.
These web pages are then scanned for keywords, Meta data and links to other web pages. The links are the important bit as it's sort of like a vote for a page. i.e. if you had two WebPages on the net all about Aerobics, one of them will have more links to it from other peoples web sites on the net. Google then count up the links, the site with the more links to it is obviously more popular, and very likely to be more of what you were searching for.

People caught on to this and started to progressively create fake domains that had loads of links to their client’s websites so they would get higher in the search list. Google didn’t like that as it's cheating, so they regularly tweak their search algorithm to prevent companies fooling their engine!.

Hope all that made sense?

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The most understandable explanation of them all!

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Hear Hear.

 

[Rico]

Definitive explanation:

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To clarify further, Google didn't invent spiders. Every search engine has done it, but I think Google was one of the first to let you access their caches. However they did invent the PageRank system. It mainly means that if more people link to your site, it appears higher up in results, but also if the sites linking to your site are popular (like say, Slashdot or IGN) you will get a much bigger boost than if some random Geocities site links to you.

A drawback of this is that if lots of sites link to Tony Blair's biography with the word 'liar', Google thinks that page is a popular site for the word 'liar' and you get a googlebomb.

 

[RatchetMan]

A good explanation. To see it in action, type LIAR into google and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button. The result is due to a number of people linking to a particular website. enjoy..

 

[Rico]

^^ I just edited in that googlebomb, hit submit and you'd mentioned it at the same time What are the odds...

 

[aapje89]

LOL :lol: