computer speak

Tomorrow's World was a show on BBC TV about innovations and tech stuff and I thought a good name for our computing and tech section.
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computer speak

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Can anyone tell me what <bot> means when it shows who is online, sorry for being so thick :?

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Post: # 120544Post Rod in Japan »

Hi Russ,

I believe it's a Web robot, which is a tool used by search engines like Google and Yahoo to monitor content posted on the site and produce statistics. Read more about it at Googlebot.

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Thanks Rod
learn something new every day.


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