Who is BingBot?

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brakenfur
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Who is BingBot?

Post by brakenfur »

lately when i go on i see on the user list someone called bingbot in the color gray like an invactive dev would like and i can't click on the name to see the profile and i can't find that name on the mmbers list either so what is this O_o some kind of bot or what
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Re: who is BingBot

Post by Per »

brakenfur 54 wrote:some kind of bot
Yes.
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Re: who is BingBot

Post by Cyp »

It would be more appropriate if it was blue though, to match the colour of the BSoD.
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Buginator
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Re: who is BingBot

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Cyp wrote:It would be more appropriate if it was blue though, to match the colour of the BSoD.
It turns blue when it crashes--though, it turns gray when it tries to crash a linux box.
and it ends here.
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Re: who is BingBot

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bingbot is probably the crawler bot for bing.com
as googlebot is the crawler for google.com
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Re: who is BingBot

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so do u guys know it is here or what like is it a bot some dev progamed or a crawler bot like Iluvalar said
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Re: who is BingBot

Post by Saberuneko »

Stop joking and explain it.
Shame on you. :(

It's most likely to be a crawler bot from bing.com, a crawler bot looks for most "Interesting" or "Popular" posts, and indexes them on the search engine they're supposed to serve. It's created by the search engine devs.
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Re: who is BingBot

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Buginator wrote:
Cyp wrote:It would be more appropriate if it was blue though, to match the colour of the BSoD.
It turns blue when it crashes--though, it turns gray when it tries to crash a linux box.
You, sir, made my day xD