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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2007 17:40:56 GMT
Why were there 90-odd people online here then?Something big must have happened as there isn't normally more than 20 or so  |
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Post by schumi on Sept 17, 2007 17:42:22 GMT
Why were there 90-odd people online here then?Something big must have happened as there isn't normally more than 20 or so We had a Googlebot (or something similar) raid shortly after Hortongate. Next question...  Edit: if there are, say, 10 guests here, usually 6 or 7 of them will be search engines. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2007 19:31:39 GMT
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Post by schumi on Sept 18, 2007 16:55:21 GMT
Basically, search engines collect their information by sending out spiders which visit various web pages and copy them so they can be indexed and transfered, so when someone searches for something they produce as many results as possible. I'm guessing that on the night in question there was either a lot of information added on here, or it was when we expanded the sections, so there were more spiders, which show up as guests. Basically anything with an IP address that starts 195 here is a spider collecting information.
But it must be doing us some good - I asked one member what made him sign up and he said he Googled Sebastian Truminski and we were the first hit.
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