What is a Yahoo and Google Bot?

artist · #1 Postby **artist** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:01 pm

Looking at who is online it shows a yahoo bot an dgoogle bot. what is a bot from these places?

#2 Postby **TreasureIslandFLGal** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:13 pm

I was wondering the same thing!

x-y-no · #3 Postby **x-y-no** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:17 pm

The various search engines have software that follow links all over the internet and catalog what they find. That's what those bots are.

artist · #4 Postby **artist** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:18 pm

thank you - so part of their search engines then?

#5 Postby **vbhoutex** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:16 pm

artist wrote:thank you - so part of their search engines then?

Basically that is correct. That is part of the way that the search engines "find" different sites when you use them looking for something.