WWDX Robots?

[LeapFrog]

Sorry for the click-bait title but if you look at the very bottom of the page and scroll all the way down you can see at any given time there will be some registered members on the Forum, plenty of guests and it seems like there's always over 100 "robots"! Why are there robots on the Forum and what are the purpose of them?
Indexing the thread contents? I don't get it that's why I'm asking!
Thanks
-Leap

 

[Road Squawker]

well, right now, there are 12 members, 192 guests and and 127 robots currently using the site.

@ the top of the page, click on "dx members", then "current visitors" and you will see the list.

the web "BOTS".... BAIDU, BING, YAHOO, ect, report every update to the site pages to keep the "current page" updated, not only here , but also on just about every web site.

so when you do a search, you get the current page, not a page from last year. the site admin can turn them off if he desires to do so.

the REAL question (at least in my mind), is who are all the unnamed "guests"

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

well, right now, there are 12 members, 192 guests and and 127 robots currently using the site.

@ the top of the page, click on "dx members", then "current visitors" and you will see the list.

the web "BOTS".... BAIDU, BING, YAHOO, ect, report every update to the site pages to keep the "current page" updated, not only here , but also on just about every web site.

so when you do a search, you get the current page, not a page from last year. the site admin can turn them off if he desires to do so.

the REAL question (at least in my mind), is who are all the unnamed "guests"

You are correct about the bots on the site. as for the "unnamed guests" well those are simply people that have found the site and are looking at it without registering and becoming members yet. They may simply have been Googling something and hit on a page here. They are limited in what they can see however.

 

[LeapFrog]

Thanks guys, I was thinking it was something along those lines.

 

[BBB]

Radio Robots

 

[LeapFrog]

Radio Robots

Now I just need to do the HF mod for my robot radio and I'll be ready for some action! Call me crazy but I didn't find it on CB Tricks!

 

[Road Squawker]

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[LeapFrog]

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should compliment my "plastic" radio just fine!

 

[space cowboy]

 

[RatsoW8]

My ex had a plastic pal