quote pugetsoundboater:
I see on the “who is online” bing[bot] and yahoo[bot], are they the lowlife culprits? Annoying!
The Google, Yahoo and other bots are robots (also known as spiders or crawlers) which scan web sites to gather information for their search engine indexes. If they weren’t gathering information, you wouldn’t get any results when you do a Google search. If you use ‘Images’ in your searches, you might see your own picture which you had posted in the public forums here. This is because the bots had picked it up.
Bots are harmless and also beneficial to everyone. If you are concerned about them picking up your email or phone number, spelling some of the numbers/letters and using spaces in your post will throw them off. If you don’t, your email address will become a clickable ‘hyperlink’ which they can easily recognize.
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