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  1. Carol M

    Carol M Well-Known Member

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    Why are there 185 robots on this forum right now? Not a nerd myself, so just wondering... and I bet not one of them own any property - or perhaps they do? :)
     
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    Scott No Mates Well-Known Member

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    Of the other 350 odd guests and members, how many are drones?
     
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    Haha. I wish the would start posting. At least there might be some coherent posts to make a nice change from the constant stream of driven we have been subject to recently.
     
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    Beep boop. I am a bot.
     
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    Could be worse, could be whirlpool... where almost all threads are started by bots
     
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    D.T. Specialist Property Manager Business Member

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    Majority are crawlers, automated bots that go check websites for updates so they can advise the website they're from (say Google, advertising agencies, etc) what the website has on it, any updates etc
     
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    all those recently culled Twitter bots have to migrate somewhere I guess
     
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    AI taking over o_O
     
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    China, Russia, North Korea, Trump, Cambridge analytica, Facebook, Al Quaida, Isis, Elon Musk, Big Brother, ATO, ASIO, CIA, Federal Police, Amazon, Google, Skynet, Doomsday Preppers, Anonymous, Deep Mind, - they all want a piece of the Australian property market!
     
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    As a clue look for any of the below avatars.:

    Man I hope Bender organises a meet-up!
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    Its all the robots in charge if Facebook data misuse, they have recently been made redundant so are looking for a new home ;)
     
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    Just because most people are not aware of what happens "behind the scenes" on the internet, I thought I would share my list "known bots" which I use to identify which visitors are bots (vs which are human).

    Here are the "top 10" (according to Web Crawlers and User-Agents - Top 10 Most Popular - we see these too)

    1. GoogleBot

      Googlebot is obviously one of the most popular web crawlers on the internet today as it is used to index content for Google’s search engine. Patrick Sexton wrote a great article about what a Googlebot is and how it pertains to your website indexing. One great thing about Google’s web crawler is that they give us a lot of tools and control over the process.

    2. Bingbot

      Bingbot is a web crawler deployed by Microsoft in 2010 to supply information to their Bing search engine. This is the replacement of what used to be the MSN bot.

    3. Slurp Bot

      Yahoo Search results come from the Yahoo web crawler Slurp and Bing’s web crawler, as a lot of Yahoo is now powered by Bing. Sites should allow Yahoo Slurp access in order to appear in Yahoo Mobile Search results.

    4. DuckDuckBot

      DuckDuckBot is the Web crawler for DuckDuckGo, a search engine that has become quite popular lately as it is known for privacy and not tracking you. It now handles over 12 million queries per day. DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (their crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (Wikipedia). They also have more traditional links in the search results, which they source from Yahoo!, Yandex and Bing.

    5. Baiduspider

      Baiduspider is the official name of the Chinese Baidu search engine’s web crawling spider. It crawls web pages and returns updates to the Baidu index. Baidu is the leading Chinese search engine that takes an 80% share of the overall search engine market of China Mainland.

    6. Yandex Bot

      YandexBot is the web crawler to one of the largest Russian search engines, Yandex. According to LiveInternet, for the three months ended December 31, 2015, they generated 57.3% of all search traffic in Russia.

    7. Sogou Spider

      Sogou Spider is the web crawler for Sogou.com, a leading Chinese search engine that was launched in 2004. As of April 2016 it has a rank of 103 in Alexa’s internet rankings.

    8. Exabot

      Exabot is a web crawler for Exalead, which is a search engine based out of France. It was founded in 2000 and now has more than 16 billion pages currently indexed.

    9. Facebook External Hit

      Facebook allows its users to send links to interesting web content to other Facebook users. Part of how this works on the Facebook system involves the temporary display of certain images or details related to the web content, such as the title of the webpage or the embed tag of a video. The Facebook system retrieves this information only after a user provides a link.

    10. Alexa Crawler

      Ia_archiver is the web crawler for Amazon’s Alexa internet rankings. As you probably know they collect information to show rankings for both local and international sites.
    Here are some of the others we see - this list is by no means exhaustive (there are thousands of these bots out there), and it does change over time.

    Note also that some of these are generic web scraping tools used by software developers to retrieve information from other websites and aren't related to a specific website or company.
     
    Simon Hampel, 14th Aug, 2018
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