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Bots
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 1:12 pm
by Mid A 15
Nothing to do with the was Horsham designed to be gay thread!
Just wondering in my ignorance what their function is? Are they a form of malware?
I've seen google, google adsense, yahoo and exa.
There may be more bots out there!
Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere.
Re: Bots
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:45 pm
by jtaylor
Bots are "robots" - the programs which the major search engines use to "crawl" the web, looking for websites and changes to websites.
Because the CH Forum is indexed by the main search engines, they visit periodically to check the content and index it so that it'll return in searches on the internet in Google etc..
e.g. searching for "Old Blues Day Christ's Hospital" on Google, you get CH Forum entries returned.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q= ... s+Hospital
Shame it's not more interesting really!
J
Re: Bots
Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:17 pm
by Katharine
Angela (Munch) had some wonderful flights of fancy about Googlebot and her relatives here
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=2613
Has anyone heard from Angela lately? I hope she is busy in the garden and hasn't deserted us.
Re: Bots
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:02 am
by J.R.
So if we come across 'Booty-Bot', should we be very concerned ?
Re: Bots
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 3:28 pm
by MarkB
J.R. wrote:So if we come across 'Booty-Bot', should we be very concerned ?
Possibly, but no doubt someone will get to the bottom of it.
Re: Bots
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 6:52 pm
by Mid A 15
We have a new one!
MSNbot Media.
There is also a new user called Qulbutoke. Anything to do with bots?

Re: Bots
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:50 am
by Angela Woodford
Katharine wrote:
Has anyone heard from Angela lately? I hope she is busy in the garden and hasn't deserted us.
Lying a bit low at the moment!
Into hospital, surgeon got knife into, complications, still not better.... However, back at home!
Love to everyone!
Re: Bots
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 11:01 am
by Jo
Angela Woodford wrote:Katharine wrote:
Has anyone heard from Angela lately? I hope she is busy in the garden and hasn't deserted us.
Lying a bit low at the moment!
Into hospital, surgeon got knife into, complications, still not better.... However, back at home!
Love to everyone!
Ouch!! Poor you

Hope you feel better and join us again soon
Re: Bots
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 2:08 pm
by englishangel
Get well soon
Re: Bots
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 8:45 pm
by midget
I hope you are soon fighting fit again, Angela
Maggie
Re: Bots
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:08 am
by icomefromalanddownunder
Angela Woodford wrote:Katharine wrote:
Has anyone heard from Angela lately? I hope she is busy in the garden and hasn't deserted us.
Lying a bit low at the moment!
Into hospital, surgeon got knife into, complications, still not better.... However, back at home!
Love to everyone!
Hi Munch
Sorry to hear that all did not go as planned, but hope that it will all be worth it once you have completely healed.
I had a brief and unexpected stint in one of Adelaide's finest when I returned from my trip. Really should have paid more attention to the fact that people kept commenting on my tan. 'Tan? What tan? I was in Europe. In Winter. To$$ers.' Sadly, it was a case of me being the To$$er
Much love
xx
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:13 am
by Angela Woodford
Thank you so much for these messages! It's really kind of you all!
The district nurse team are really baffled that I am laughing like mad when I have dressings done. It's because the surgery has a pile of back numbers of Mens' Health magazine. This publication is so so funny!
Caroline! You did look sunkissed... how are you now????
Re: Bots
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:49 pm
by MKM
icomefromalanddownunder wrote:
I had a brief and unexpected stint in one of Adelaide's finest when I returned from my trip. Really should have paid more attention to the fact that people kept commenting on my tan. 'Tan? What tan? I was in Europe. In Winter. To$$ers.' Sadly, it was a case of me being the To$$er
You've been downunder too long, Caroline. That wasn't winter, it was spring, and some of warmest days of the year so far.
I hope you and Munch both feel better soon.
Re: Bots
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:35 pm
by Jo
We appear to have another new bot this evening - TurnitinBot. Unless someone is just pretending
Thing is, I've heard of Google, Yahoo, MSN etc, but Turnitin?? Ah yes, Google......
Apparently Turnitin is a plagiarism detection service. Well, I've learned something new

Re: Bots
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:59 pm
by Mid A 15
Get well soon Angela and Caroline!