I'm so old I Remember when:

[tripletfeb]

By golly, you're RIGHT!
Apparently I have shattered the Time-Space Continuum and am now in TWO PLACES AT THE SAME TIME!

Am I really the only one that thinks it's absolutely hilarious that Blue replied in this thread about being old? It's an easy mistake to make but some could say it's an old person mistake A mistake that the best of us have made

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Am I really the only one that thinks it's absolutely hilarious that Blue replied in this thread about being old? It's an easy mistake to make but some could say it's an old person mistake A mistake that the best of us have made

This is why I luvs you, Trip.
(But blaming my mistakes on my age is so much better than just saying
Dang I'm so stoopid!")

 

[Evadig]

I've got a question I don't know where to post:
How can a robot view a page?

 

[Brooks_]

I've got a question I don't know where to post:
How can a robot view a page?

Internet search engine bots

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Internet search engine bots

Okay but why?

 

[Brooks_]

Okay but why?

So the search engine can give better results to a query.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

So the search engine can give better results to a query.

Ah. So Google is mining us? That's great!

 

[azurbanclucker]

I've got a question I don't know where to post:
How can a robot view a page?

If you view a page's source code, it contains a bunch of data that describes the content of the page. it can be a mix of scripting languages but most of the code is in plain text of some form or another. Within that code is what's called metadata. That metadata is things like descriptions of the page content, certain keywords, and other magical phrases that help websites get better search rankings in google, bing, duck duck, etc... The better optimized your SEO metadata is, the better your odds of getting listed higher in search ranks, which in turn increases your odds of a click.

Now, web robots (also known as spiders or crawlers) are not really robots. They're scripts running all over the internet looking at websites for that metadata. it can be for any number of reasons, with again, the most obvious ones being indexing agents for search engines. They are basically loading the page and searching for those keywords and metadata to add to their database. it's all code and it's basically converting the images and words you and I see into 1's and 0's that the analysis software at the other end can understand to do it's math.

"Robots" is just an easy way to explain fairly complex software.

 

[troyer]

This is why I luvs you, Trip.
(But blaming my mistakes on my age is so much better than just saying
Dang I'm so stoopid!")

Nobody should in seriousness call themselves stupid.

Ah. So Google is mining us? That's great!

Spot on!

 

[RoyalChick]

Ah. So Google is mining us? That's great!

I find Google better at searching BYC than the BYC search tool.
What surprised me was to see Apple even more active than Google.