What are robots?

I just looked at the "who's online" and it shows me the number of members, guests, then robots....?

What exactly is a robot on CT?

 

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I think it's automated computers that visit the site and collect info on it so when you search for cointalk online, different parts of the website will show up in your search.

Or something like that.

 

Robots are programs that collect data such as subjects, authors, words, and then sends them to a database for parsing into search or advertising responses, or other uses

 

Yep, what non_cents and desertgem said. More info if you're interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

 

We are not alone.......

 

Often called "bots" also, all the hobby websites I belong to, have them, sometimes several different ones at the same time; there's no other way for Google and Bing, etc., to index new Internet content. Next time you post, trying typing in a unique nonsense word (at the end) like aqyhbnpw, then Google that exact word in 20 minutes, see if it's been picked up yet...

 

NSA

 

This was posted 30 minutes ago:

This was found at 6:34PM:
https://www.google.com/search?q=aqy...j8&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

 

This is one of the reasons that you don't put email addresses or phone numbers in post. The bots pick it up and it becomes a part of a data base somewhere.

 

I guess private convo's should be ok, right?

 

Big Brother

 

'other uses' <---- BINGO

 

Thanks everyone. Makes sense.

 

Good question. I don't know.

 

There's no such thing.

 

A regular member - and that includes search engine robots - cannot read anybody else's private messages (aka conversations) here on Coin Talk. Neither can we mods.

Christian

 

NSA!
The only thing they can't know is what you're thinking. But they are working on that as I write.

 

1984

 

... a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control
I guess the NSA is 30yrs late