OMG! A bot! Get it!

What is it? I might have asked this before, but I forget. It often says there is a yahoo bot, but I don't know who or what it is.

Edit: MOve this to Q & A plaease. I meant to post it there.

Moved, it is a forumotion bot making sure we aren't watching porn

No. It isn't.



It's an automated alogorithm that Yahoo! uses to record and collect internet data in advance of users using its (well known) search-engine, this pre-logging of data allows it to deliver faster search results to users when they query its system in the future. It's essentially just recording and keywording everything that we say here, putting it into Yahoo!'s database, and allowing Yahoo! to conduct engine-searches of our site in the future. It makes 'Gamers Central' appear in Yahoo! searches.


Seriously Sailor. Why not spend a bit of time learning about how this site works, then maybe you can make it better; instead of just remaining ignorant, making endless chains of errors, and handing out false information.

Don't forget: Poor leadership kills sites.

Turbo hit it head on Yahoo bots have nothing to do forumotion at all. You should try to make sure you know what your talking about before posting...

So while the bot is on, if we post like tons of threads all called Gamers Central is Awesome, when ever someone looked up awesome on yahoo, GC would come up? Perhaps not first but still, somewhere?

Yeah basically but we are still pretty far down...

Well all the admins are on vacation for today and tomorrow except for pleasant, but he is rarely on anymore, so its a party!!!

Dublanous wrote:Well all the admins are on vacation for today and tomorrow except for pleasant, but he is rarely on anymore, so its a party!!!

Cool, I am the only mod today!

...and still nobody respects you.

Actually there are three bots

Google, Yahoo and the third we never see


I was correct on the third

...but totally incorrect about the actual question asked.


Seriously, just man up and admit you made an error. Only a weak leader would seek to obfuscate the issue in order to retain some imagined scraps of dignity.

So you got it wrong. Big deal. Just say so and apologise, we'll respect you far more for that than for saying "Er, well, while the answer I gave was wrong, it would have been right if I had given it as the answer to a different question".

yeah I mean sailor you can't have everything your way... sometimes you need to listen to other people, i'm not saying turbo was right, but just in general

We are getting off topic