What do all those bots here?

[Walter]

Alexa, Bing, Google?

[grsbanks]

If you want pages on this forum to appear in search results on those search engines, you have to let those bots trawl through the forum.

[dlachieze]

Indexing for search engines I suppose...

I don't think they are really looking for DM42 tips, well maybe Alexa, to be able to answer to anybody yelling in his kitchen: "how much pounds of flour do I need for my pancakes?"
with "let me pull my DM42 and do the calculation for you"

[keithdalby]

If Alexa said that I might be more tempted to buy one

[Walter]

If Alexa said that I might be more tempted to buy one

Do you really want the NSA at home? And whoever else hacks those data?

[Walter]

If you want pages on this forum to appear in search results on those search engines, you have to let those bots trawl through the forum.

Thanks for the explanation, grsbanks!

[keithdalby]

Do you really want the NSA at home? And whoever else hacks those data?

Well they can't hack MY brain.

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[Walter]

Well they can't hack MY brain.
...

Don't forget grounding it (whatever ... ).

[toml_12953]

If Alexa said that I might be more tempted to buy one

Do you really want the NSA at home? And whoever else hacks those data?

If they have nothing better to do than look at my boring activities, I feel sorry for them!
Now, if I could only delete my searches for latex, whips and midgets...