Cosmica wrote:Actually guys, I think the bots are so our forums will appear on the search engine(s). So they check in every now and then to download our data into its cache. (I'm pretty sure it's actually a setting you can have the forum software allow/disallow)

Spam bots, on the other hand, don't actually show up as bots - they show up looking like real people so they can post spam. (Albeit they would have to get past the forum's registration security). But yeah these bots in question aren't for spam as far as I know.

SFK363 wrote:I asked Regalis via private messaging and this is what he thought.

I wrote:What does it do? I've seen it online, rarely, but I haven't noticed it doing anything. What is it's purpose?

Regalis wrote:I think it just collects information for Google's search engine.

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