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Just one quick question...

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Why do Bing, Yahoo and Google appear under registered users below the mini-chat box?
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They are bots, scouring the web to update their searches and cache it.

If the site goes down or things are deleted they you can often still view the content using a google cache search

Here's a google cache of a previous bot question on G&S
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... ogle.co.uk
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Ah, okay!
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Proinsias wrote:They are bots, scouring the web to update their searches and cache it.

If the site goes down or things are deleted they you can often still view the content using a google cache search

Here's a google cache of a previous bot question on G&S
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... ogle.co.uk
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Re: Just one quick question...

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Proinsias wrote:They are bots, scouring the web to update their searches and cache it.

If the site goes down or things are deleted they you can often still view the content using a google cache search

Here's a google cache of a previous bot question on G&S
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... ogle.co.uk
dead on
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