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  1. Boosha

    Boosha Built to run hard

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    I was just scrolling thru the "whose online" and noticed that at the end of the members was guests,yahoo slurp spiders,google spider and MSNbot spider.Are these potential hackers,or the automated jerks looking for email addresses? If they are email hunters,looks like I will post my email a different way.
     
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  2. scooper77515

    scooper77515 No current projects.

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    I think they are just monitoring online activity for google searches, etc.

    Try googling "scooper77515" and see what pops up. Mostly Forum stuff from here and Seadoo forum, and my website. Those items are identified by the spiders and bots so that they show up on the searches.

    I think...:hmmm: That is just my guess.
     
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  3. PAINTANK

    PAINTANK Cometosis Obsessivus

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    Yep.

    Don't google me...
     
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    facelessnumber Drew Pittman

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    I'd do what he says. 'Cause I suspect he could outfit a militia just with what's in his sock drawer. :D
     
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    scooper77515 No current projects.

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    He probably shoots children's toys for fun, or something horrible like that...:rofl2:
     
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  6. Acornridgeman

    Acornridgeman MCCI Wisconsin State Rep Moderator Supporting Member

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    You are correct .......... all search engines do this.

    They are ubiquitous to the web now.
     
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    Mavaholic Growing older but not up!

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    Wow, I had to look that word up, still can pronounce it though. :D
     
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  8. Acornridgeman

    Acornridgeman MCCI Wisconsin State Rep Moderator Supporting Member

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    :rofl2:

    Glad I spelled it right!

    :thumbs2:

    ubiquitous [juːˈbɪkwɪtəs]
    adj having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent [from Latin ubīque everywhere, from ubī where]
    ubiquitously adv
    ubiquity , ubiquitousness n
     
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  9. facelessnumber

    facelessnumber Drew Pittman

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    "Spiders." They've been "crawling the web" since the first search engines. I'd say they were already pretty ubiquitous by 1994, when web servers started having to leave little notes for them saying what they should and shouldn't index.
     
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  10. Stefan

    Stefan Big Cheese Administrator

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    Its just search engines' crawlers indexing the site. They can only crawl parts of the site that are accessible to guests. As long as you dont post your email directly in a post, they wont index it.
     
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