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[Marco1972]

Not sure if anyone else has this while on this forum
I always have Bing next to my user name ? When Im browsing posts
You cant click on it like you can with other forum users so a bit of a mystery
Ive done a screen shot if anyone from admin wants to see
Im not an IT guru but Im interested as to why its there

[nicklouse]

maybe the screenshot and info on your browser of choice.

[phillrulz]

the way websites work is you give the search engine (google bing yahoo etc) "crawler" (a server which addresses and searched web pages) a user account, this tells it what to look at and what not to look at. 

 

Cool little video from google on how search engines work. 

 

 

 

You can view the permissions these crawlers are given by viewing the robots.txt. This is visible on any webpage. The crawler will go to a website, ask what it can and cant look at then act accordingly. 

Edited by phillrulz, 12 April 2018 - 10:32 PM.

[nicklouse]

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like this

[Marco1972]

Yup that’s it
Thought it was something sinister lol

Cheers folks