Well, I was the only person online but there were 96 guests online so I decided to look it up and appearantly, there was 95 yahoo bots

We have about 10% members online, 35% guests and 55% bots :D

Bots are important

;)

yahoo seems to do those mad bot rushs more than any other bot I've seen...

What is the exact purpose of these bots ? Logging or something ?

get latest information for search results :)

For searchengines ? Like google or altavista etc . ?

Yea, after all, Yahoo! is a search engine

wait so basically bots are set of scripts/engines that would automatically search the web for new updates and enterise? if so how are they controlled?

I think they are just sent to browse their catalogue, pick up new links and all that stuff.

I seem to get tons of googlebots on my forum!

Wow, I can't believe I wasn't a kF to see that!