Hello users of IPB

just been viewing the online users list and found some interesting entry:



to be honest I'm not surprised as I still remember a few days back when I discovered that Google was replying to a topic in my board.

Now is this a bug or feature :unsure:

If the Yahoo spider goes to the search page, it's going to be displayed as searching the board. Similarly, if the Googlebot goes to the "add reply" page [you have posting enabled somewhere for guests], it's going to be displayed as replying to a topic.

Always remember, if you see a search engine spider doing something that you don't think they have permission to do, it typically means they are actually indexing an error page telling them they don't have permission to do whatever it was they were doing.

[quote name='Μichael' date='17 September 2009 - 05:11 PM' timestamp='1253225519' post='1856964']
Always remember, if you see a search engine spider doing something that you don't think they have permission to do, it typically means they are actually indexing an error page telling them they don't have permission to do whatever it was they were doing.


Yeah, that's true.

I wish there were a way to change the messages being displayed about bots doing things like that.

Something along the lines of "Google is being told to bugger off". ;)

hmm interesting what is he searching for?

[quote name='RainbowViper' date='17 September 2009 - 06:52 PM' timestamp='1253227960' post='1856973']
Yeah, that's true.

I wish there were a way to change the messages being displayed about bots doing things like that.

Something along the lines of "Google is being told to bugger off". ;)

It's been like this for a while, but hopefully they'll fix this soon:

http://community.invisionpower.com/index.php?app=tracker&showissue=18482