Just wondering

[Jamjo]

I see often down at the bottom where online users are listed and so much of the time it says something like "Google [Bot]" and stuff among all the actual usernames, so I'm just wondering what the heck that even means O_o
Sorry if it's listed somewhere else but I didn't know where I could find an answer for that.

[hernextmeal]

Search engines have bots called web crawlers that visit sites to index them. It's how sites wind up on search engines and how Google site search works.

[KingKabal777]

I see often down at the bottom where online users are listed and so much of the time it says something like "Google [Bot]" and stuff among all the actual usernames, so I'm just wondering what the heck that even means O_o
Sorry if it's listed somewhere else but I didn't know where I could find an answer for that.

Google, Yahoo, Bing have that because they are indexing the website into their search engine. It's technically called a web crawler and they usually add the information from the website on their search engine if someone needs to search up something specifically.

Alexa is another one as well, which is called "Wayback Machine", in which if you aren't familiar or have never seen it, it's used to find deleted material that might have been removed, it doesn't always interact or is seen very often, but if someone uses it to access the site or archive a forum topic, then they can use that to save a preview of the page before it was deleted, as shown in this example:

http://web.archive.org/web/200602080209 ... ryion.com/

If Eka or Leshana wouldn't want their site to be archived, they can restrict access to search engines and prevent archiving of deleted material by request or similar.

Alexa can't index or allow others to view deleted material if robots.txt is edited to prevent archiving or if either the two request it not to be archived.

[BizzareBlue]

You could believe the answers above, or you could choose to believe that google has achieved sentience and spends its free time looking for vore pics.

[Jamjo]

You could believe the answers above, or you could choose to believe that google has achieved sentience and spends its free time looking for vore pics.

^^This. I agree with this.^^

[Jamjo]

Thanks for the responses guys