muddymire Posted July 7, 2014 Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 I've been looking at the log on and off for the past couple of hours. What do the GOOGLE and BING bots do? They creep me out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarvaHunter Posted July 7, 2014 Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 Googlebot accesses web pages every few seconds, how Google uses this info I don't know. It's a web crawling robot, it detects links on each page and adds them to its list of pages to crawl. There are ways to prevent Googlebot from following any links on your website. There is also a way to block Google from access to your files and directories of your server using the no follow meta tag. It's to let sites get more web hits on Google, by sacrificing your members privacy. I don't know if I like that. Bingbot is by Microsoft, same thing though, don't know why Microsoft needs to be on here, is Microsoft a search engine? Why would they even need this? Data mining tools is what I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddymire Posted July 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 That makes perfect sense. Kinda scary, isn't BING already owned by Microsoft? Google scares me a lot less than Microsoft, saying that name gives me shivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oak Posted July 7, 2014 Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 what makes you think google is any better than microsoft? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddymire Posted July 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 Google acts essetially as a not for profit, other than ads. I'm saying it's not corporate, it has stocks and lawyers. It seems it's trying to do good, Google books for example. I just feel that Microsoft has already revelaed itself as a sell out. I still have faith in Google, even if it's naive. AND It's how I found all of you! : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarvaHunter Posted July 8, 2014 Report Share Posted July 8, 2014 Google just acquired Boston Dynamics. They build robots for warfare. Why would they need this company? I still use Google, but I see no reason to have faith in them. Google is a multinational corporation, they make billions of dollars per year just on ads. Google foundation is their little nonprofit Google.org set up to look good, corporations don't have ethics they exist for profit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oak Posted July 8, 2014 Report Share Posted July 8, 2014 haha, what Larvahunter said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddymire Posted July 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2014 I had no idea google was investing in robotic warfare. What happened... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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