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While in E & C I noticed a purple name in the "whose online" at the bottom of the index. Looking closer I see it is:

Google [Bot],

Strange visitor from another planet? Never saw that before.

"Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot (sometimes also called a "spider"). Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index."

So are we blessed?

Heh, not really. The Google and Yahoo bots are here pretty often (at least daily) just indexing the public-level posts.

Do a quick search on Google, it works pretty well for finding DBB posts.

Yes it does a good job and is much better than the one here does. The one here doesn't even find anything.

The one here is turned off because the MS-SQL 2000 database engine can't handle search (I'm still pestering RC to fix it).

I noticed there also was Yahoo BOT.

LotharBot is the one that you need to watch out for. It's trouble with a capital T.

Krom wrote:The one here is turned off because the MS-SQL 2000 database engine can't handle search (I'm still pestering RC to fix it).

Can't use a newer DB engine? I think I have a spare 2008 SQL server license, if that helps.

Ask RC, he needs some extra features that aren't in the standard (free) versions. A few weeks ago we tried to switch it to the latest build of MySQL, but we ran into a snag and had to abort. I'm not sure when we will be able to try again.