whats all that about at the botton when it say "bot 1" and google lights up

any ideas

edit . on the home page

nope

haven't got an igloo ??

It means we've been "crawled"/assimilated by google I think

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebot

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80553

so is it a good thing ??

nope. That wikipedia link said it was a spider !

is a spider bad ?

it's Google taking a copy of the forum contents for cache and to list in search results...

is it a good thing?

well...

if you want more hits on the site, yes

if you don't want the shit we type on here showing up in Google results for anyone to see & find, then no

I'd go with no personally

MMMM google, isnt there proper name "Big Brother"?? as in keepin an eye on us all??

negawskloV wrote:it's Google taking a copy of the forum contents for cache and to list in search results...

is it a good thing?

well...

if you want more hits on the site, yes

if you don't want the shit we type on here showing up in Google results for anyone to see & find, then no

I'd go with no personally

So can you turn it off or go invisible from the all consuming google?

Turn it off !! Turn it off !!

H wrote:

negawskloV wrote:it's Google taking a copy of the forum contents for cache and to list in search results...

is it a good thing?

well...

if you want more hits on the site, yes

if you don't want the shit we type on here showing up in Google results for anyone to see & find, then no

I'd go with no personally

So can you turn it off or go invisible from the all consuming google?

I don't think you can on forumotion I know you can hide them from the statistics but they would still visit so that makes no difference

maybe Toast knows?

Pah, we want freedom of speech!

i dont fink i can turn it off , fink the only option is to turn off it telling us its happening . but i will do some looking in to it