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Interesting observation

KC Oct 29 2005 08:53 AM

In the morning sometimes when I'm logged on to the admin pages I notice something a little odd. There is a page that lists who's online and what sec- tion of the forum their in and their ip address. Pretty boring stuff, except some mornings something weird is going on. Today there was like nine guests logged on in addition to two or three regulars viewing nine different areas of the board and all with the same ip address? A simple whois lookup of the ip address (which btw was 66.249.65.167) shows that address pointing to Google in CA. Other mornings I've found the same thing pointing to Micro- soft in WA. Anyone want to speculate what's going on there? I suppose it could be a trail of some kind of mechanical info gathering of web info or something for search engine purposes. Other than that I find it a little peculiar.

seawolf17 Oct 29 2005 08:58 AM

It's gotta be The Man, keeping tabs on us. That, or it's the terrorists.

MFS62 Oct 29 2005 09:12 AM

There are a lot of folks on the West Coast who like the Mets? I dunno. Later

Iubitul Oct 29 2005 09:13 AM

I'm thinking maybe google spiders?

KC Oct 29 2005 09:25 AM

You're prolly right ... Gives a whole new meaning to arachnophobia.

cooby Oct 29 2005 09:44 AM

I noticed one day last weekend that I was logged in all alone, with 11 guests. I did a "Who's Online" click to find that they were all looking at weird, old stuff like In Game Threads and PoTG's.

ScarletKnight41 Oct 29 2005 10:14 AM

What's a google spider?

Yancy Street Gang Oct 29 2005 10:29 AM

A spider is a program that crawls across the web (hence the name) following links from one page to another. Google and the other search engines use spiders to gather the URL's for their indexes.

ScarletKnight41 Oct 29 2005 11:07 AM

Thanks Yancy.

SI Metman Oct 29 2005 08:28 PM

Yeah, Google Spiders are all over the place. I'm betting you could Google almost all of the threads on the CPF.

Willets Point Oct 29 2005 08:32 PM

And yet a Google search for "Crane Pool Forum" still ranks the dead EZBOARD version as #1.

Rockin' Doc Oct 30 2005 07:04 PM

Well, the old EZBoard address has in existnce much longer than this one has. It's literally crawling with spiders. Give us another year or two and our new home will be completely infested too.