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| Thread ID: 63881 | 2005-11-25 14:04:00 | were are the 26 others | Eric (378) | PC World Chat |
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| 407474 | 2005-11-25 14:04:00 | How come at 2:54am there was 4 members loged on, and 180 guests. But at PressF1 there was 146 viewing and PC world chat was 12 viewing Now if my maths is right, that makes 26 people looking at the home page, pressf1.pcworld.co.nz I wonder if the chemist would ever sell "Anti-procrastination" pills? maybe we will just have to think about that one. |
Eric (378) | ||
| 407475 | 2005-11-25 22:57:00 | If you'd used the search you'd find this topic has been thrashed out before. | ninja (1671) | ||
| 407476 | 2005-11-25 23:53:00 | I still can't understand why the admins allow the bots - it must use a lot of bandwidth? Also I wonder how come so many visit this forum so much - my own tend to have no more than a handful each day. :confused: |
Greg (193) | ||
| 407477 | 2005-11-26 00:21:00 | I had a look at what they were doing yesterday afternoon, because I've been wondering about this too . Of the 180 "guests", four were "Spider"s from one of the search engines (Yahoo, I think) . There wasn't a Google Spider, unusually . The others were just "Guest" . Some of them were probably "people" . How many search engines are there? If I was administering a site, I think I would have a look at such things . It would be easy enough to block any search site which didn't identify its spiders . :D Before there was a WWW, for a while the Internet performance sagged each September . That's the start of the US university year, and all the computer science students got their Internet access . A common project was "index the Internet" (especially the FTP sites) . :( The servers were often about the power of an Intel 386, so the response speed suffered when they got even tens of (often badly written) spiders . A protocol was soon adopted to control the spiders, but it was purely voluntary on the part of the writers whether they abided by it . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 407478 | 2005-11-26 00:47:00 | I still can't understand why the admins allow the bots - it must use a lot of bandwidth? Also I wonder how come so many visit this forum so much - my own tend to have no more than a handful each day. :confused: Bots bring traffic. Also loads visit our forum because its linked to from all over the internet which is where the bots get most of their addresses from |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 407479 | 2005-11-28 00:10:00 | the site is not slow while the bots are around is it? i've not noticed any slowdown. the search engines love our forum, so why stop it? ;) |
Mary (6534) | ||
| 407480 | 2005-11-28 00:29:00 | I've never noticed any bot-related slowdowns. | Greg (193) | ||
| 407481 | 2005-11-28 02:10:00 | its fine even on 56k.... | Prescott (11) | ||
| 407482 | 2005-11-28 04:01:00 | I'm sure Mary has stashed some Google bait in a corner of the forum which brings them sniffing around :p I am constantly amazed how often PressF1 shows up in searches, and often at the top of the list :thumbs: Actually, this could have a down side . . . I imagine there are a few people rather puzzled to find their search for Rhubarb Muffins ( . google . co . nz/search?hl=en&q=rubarb+muffins&btnG=Google+Search&meta=" target="_blank">www . google . co . nz) ending up in a computer forum . :D |
Jen (38) | ||
| 407483 | 2005-11-28 06:28:00 | I'm sure Mary has stashed some Google bait in a corner of the forum which brings them sniffing around :p :D hehe Actually, this could have a down side ... I imagine there are a few people rather puzzled to find their search for Rhubarb Muffins (www.google.co.nz) ending up in a computer forum. :D hehe :D |
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