WOW we have alot of quest on board right now!

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Why not sign up and join the fun! I would love to see pics of all the kitties!!
 

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Hey everyone! This is a great site! It's my favorite one ever! You should join!
 

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P.S. -- PrincessPurr, how do you tell how many guests are on the site? I have never seen any way to tell . . . but maybe I'm just dumb? LOL.
 
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yep
at the bottom of the forum home page it says how many users are online and there were 37 guests when i looked!! that is a whole lotta kitty pics I wanna see!
 

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You can also go to usercp and view "Who's Online"

I think a lot of guests are actually members that are not signed in too!
 

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You're such nice people - but the welcome gestures are wasted in this case. Most of our guests (except for a few genuine ones) are actually search engine robots indexing the forums right now.

If you go to "Who's Online" you'll see that most of them have the same ip address - inktomisearch.com. That means they are all bots for the Inktomi search engine - it's a large one that drives a lot of the more well known names. I think Yahoo uses Inktomi as well as other search engines.

You don't often get to see the bots in action - they will probably hang around here for a while and then move on... They came from a link to TCS somewhere else on the web. They are like benign "agent Smiths" with one mission in life - to get all of the web into one search engine data base.
 

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They aren't registering Sam, they are indexing thecatsite.com registering page.
 

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I saw this tread and went to check, and there were 12 members and 58 guests! And a new record too!!!
Well, this is still not quite so exciting, since a lot of those aren´t real people....but still - new record
 

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Right now we have about 15 members and 46 guests online, but I know most of the guests aren't people.

When I looked at "Who's Online" I saw that a lot of the "guests" were viewing member profiles. Do the search engine robots index those too?
 
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oh
you learn something new everyday! I thought we were going to get to see a bunch of new kitty cats
 
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