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Is Yahoo [Bot] a member of our forum?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 7:12 pm
by tommus
At the moment, this is on the bottom of the Forum page:

WHO IS ONLINE
Users browsing this forum: tommus, Yahoo [Bot] and 9 guests

What or who is Yahoo [Bot]?

Edit:
Yahoo [Bot] has now disappeared.

Re: Is Yahoo [Bot] a member of our forum?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 9:21 pm
by galaxyrocker
I've seen it on other phpBB forums I've used, and I always assumed it was a bot to help with search engine rankings, especially since there's one for Google as well. Not at all certain about that though.

Re: Is Yahoo [Bot] a member of our forum?

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 11:34 pm
by rdearman
With phpbb you can preauthorze search bots. Those are the bots trolling through our forum looking for new stuff.