What is "google bot"

[Akshay*]

Hello everyone i am not able to know that what is the googlebot

it's just above the list of the online members

[Gaijin]

Googlebot is the search bot software used by Google, which collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine.

If a webmaster wishes to restrict the information on their site available to a Googlebot, or another well-behaved spider, they can do so with the appropriate directives in a robots.txt file, or by adding the meta tag <meta name="Googlebot" content="nofollow" /> to the webpage. Googlebot requests to Web servers are identifiable by a user-agent string containing "Googlebot" and a host address containing "googlebot.com".

Currently Googlebot only follows HREF links and SRC links. Googlebot discovers pages by harvesting all of the links on every page it finds. It then follows these links to other web pages. New web pages must be linked to other known pages on the web in order to be crawled and indexed.

A problem which webmasters have often noted with the Googlebot is that it takes up an enormous amount of bandwidth.[citation needed] This can cause websites to exceed their bandwidth limit and be taken down temporarily. This is especially troublesome for mirror sites which host many gigabytes of data. Google provides "Webmaster Tools" that allow website owners to throttle the crawl rate.

[TheDoctor]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Google+Bot

[Akshay*]

@ NinjaGeek

Thanks for the information but i am talking about the google bot above the online list of sf

[Gaijin]

@ NinjaGeek

Thanks for the information but i am talking about the google bot above the online list of sf

That simply means the GoogleBot is right now online on this forum and it's collecting information...
It's a user without a profile

[Akshay*]

Thanks Ninja Geek

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@ TheDoctor


same thanks to u

[EXplore_System135]

you should search in en.wikipedia.org