430 users?

Fairygdmther · 01-23-2005, 10:27 PM

Did you guys see this? Most users was Sunday evening - 430? sheesh! and there wasn't even anything going on! Could some of those have been those Googlebots or something like that?

FGM

***fov*** · 01-23-2005, 10:35 PM

I'm sorry I missed it!

***tabacco*** · 01-23-2005, 10:38 PM

It's highly likely that they were robots. At least it's not that damn JetBot again.

Erwin_Br · 01-24-2005, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by tabacco

It's highly likely that they were robots. At least it's not that damn JetBot again.

Jetbot? What the hell is that, and you need to protect yourself from it?

--Erwin

***tabacco*** · 01-24-2005, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Erwin_Br

Jetbot? What the hell is that, and you need to protect yourself from it?

--Erwin

It's this pain in the ass search indexer that's WAY too agressive. Plus, their website is password-protected, so there are no guarantees that it's even a legitimate search site.

*Dale Baldwin* · 01-24-2005, 05:46 PM

You know, this is the third time I've seen a topic like this today (on various forums).

***tabacco*** · 01-24-2005, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Dale Baldwin

You know, this is the third time I've seen a topic like this today (on various forums).

Well, Jetbot's been banned in our robots.txt file for a few months now. Best guess for this time is Googlebot. If you think about it, spidering all the links on this forum means that you're grabbing a LOT of pages.

The trouble is, vBulletin doesn't provide a mechanism for excluding robots from the max user count.

D.M.A · 06-11-2005, 12:09 PM

What is a Googlebot?

***tabacco*** · 06-11-2005, 12:57 PM

http://www.google.com/bot.html

artwking4 · 06-11-2005, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by D.M.A

What is a Googlebot?

Googlebot.

It's not stupid. It's advanced.

01-23-2005, 10:27 PM	#1
Fairygdmther Magic Wand Waver Last Online: 05-29-2008 03:36 AM Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Sarasota, Florida Posts: 3,142	430 users? Did you guys see this? Most users was Sunday evening - 430? sheesh! and there wasn't even anything going on! Could some of those have been those Googlebots or something like that? FGM __________________ Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

01-24-2005, 05:46 PM	#6
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06-11-2005, 12:09 PM	#8
D.M.A guy,dude,man,person,boy Last Online: 08-19-2005 03:11 PM Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: California Posts: 13	What is a Googlebot? Last edited by D.M.A; 06-11-2005 at 12:15 PM..

01-23-2005, 10:35 PM	#2
*fov* Rattenmonster Last Online: 03-19-2013 04:05 PM Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 10,404	I'm sorry I missed it!

01-23-2005, 10:38 PM	#3
*tabacco* Friendly Server Admin Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Marin County, CA Posts: 4,087	It's highly likely that they were robots. At least it's not that damn JetBot again.

06-11-2005, 12:57 PM	#9
*tabacco* Friendly Server Admin Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Marin County, CA Posts: 4,087	http://www.google.com/bot.html