We have just been Googled! :)

[Rookie One.pl]

I've entered the administration panel to check one thing and I was quite surprised to see we have a couple of guests browsing the forums:

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 Guest   	 28.06.2006, 08:57:34   	 28.06.2006, 08:57:34   	 Bragging   	 66.249.65.203 
 Guest  	 28.06.2006, 08:57:31  	 28.06.2006, 08:57:31  	 Scripting  	 66.249.65.203 
 Guest  	 28.06.2006, 08:57:27  	 28.06.2006, 08:57:27  	 Help Wanted / Offered  	 66.249.65.203 
 Guest  	 28.06.2006, 08:57:22  	 28.06.2006, 08:57:22  	 Skinning / Modelling  	 66.249.65.203 
 Guest  	 28.06.2006, 08:57:16  	 28.06.2006, 08:57:16  	 News  	 66.249.65.203 
 Guest  	 28.06.2006, 08:56:55  	 28.06.2006, 08:56:55  	 Public Releases  	 66.249.65.203 
 Guest  	 28.06.2006, 08:56:54  	 28.06.2006, 08:56:54  	 Viewing profile  	 66.249.65.203 
 Guest  	 28.06.2006, 08:56:22  	 28.06.2006, 08:56:22  	 Viewing member list  	 66.249.65.203

At first I thought we're under a spambot attack right now, but I checked the IP, and guess what? It's Google's indexing bot. It seems that a fresh copy of our forums has just been added to their database.

[Tod001]

Good job Rook!!
Good lookin-out 4 us!...Shields up!
Edit* U sure?? I just checked and see no updates to Google, yet. Sure it wasn't just a "proxy"??

[tltrude]

Not sure this is related, but a couple of times, recently, my auto login cookie has failed.

[At0miC]

Not sure this is related, but a couple of times, recently, my auto login cookie has failed.

Same here.

About those google bots, I've seen on other forums that they can notice them, u see them with a username like 'google' or 'yahoo'. Maybe u can find a mod for that .

[Tod001]

Same here.

I had trouble logging in the other day(cookie).

[jv_map]

Hmm well I upgraded the boards to the latest version, but that should only cause a 1 time auto-login failure. I've also had no more than a 1 time auto log-in failure

However, let me know if the problem persists.

[Tod001]

It was only one time, one day.

[Rookie One.pl]

Haha, Jv, I told you, it's not just me! It happens quite often to me, sometimes I have to login a couple times a day.

Yeah, I'm sure it's Google's bot. Click that link, it leads to a route trace. The last host in the list is crawl-something.googlebot.com, and googlebot.com belongs to Google (try to open it in your browser, it'll redirect you to Google's main site).