Kyle F Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 (edited) Hey guys. Just had a curious wondering as to who or what "Skynet" is on the forums? It's not clickable so it tells me it's not a user, perhaps a bot? What exactly is it and what's it for? http://i51.tinypic.com/4rw4fm.jpg Edited July 5, 2011 by ItalianStalion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uNi Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Clearly a glitch, no way we would be helping Skynet... taking over.... Â Â Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddy Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Hey guys. Just had a curious wondering as to who or what "Skynet" is on the forums? It's not clickable so it tells me it's not a user, perhaps a bot? What exactly is it and what's it for?http://i51.tinypic.com/4rw4fm.jpg Its google, we just changed the name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miro Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 There is also Yahoo! & Archive.org. I remember to have read somewhere that they're bots but I don't know what they're for. I only know that Archive.org takes screen shots of the forum and adds it to the GTAForums archive although I couldn't find any newer page than March 6th, 2009. Dead (Retired) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Archive.org, like Miromiro pointed out; is a bot that takes screenshots of the forum for the respective section of its website (the "Wayback Machine"), as well as index pages for its search engine: Archive.org  The other two bots; Skynet (Google) and Yahoo! are purely search engine spiders that crawl the forums and index forum pages to their search engines, so that when people search a thread name that is on these forums in Google (for example), it shows up as a search result. That is basically what they are for. There would no doubt be other search engine spiders who crawl and index these forums, it is that those two/three are the ones we see on the online list because of the settings that have been set in the Admin Control Panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fgcarva1 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 This is off-topic, but next time you shpuld try to hide your friend's FB page on the tabs haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*MURDOC* Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 This is off-topic, but next time you shpuld try to hide your FB page on the tabs haha Fixed that for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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