UBTF: Google [Bot] and 2 guests
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:46 pm
wtf?
Not necessarily, but just to be on the safe side, Imma start my own board.PSUFAN wrote:Has to be something nefarious...right?
Smackie Chan wrote:Not necessarily, but just to be on the safe side, Imma start my own board.PSUFAN wrote:Has to be something nefarious...right?
We all know how annoying it is to register at a forum just to view the contents in it.
You can look at the contents in forums if you act as a Google bot.
This can be easily achieved.
Firstly install this to your firefox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
Restart firefox.
Then go to tools Default User Agent->User Agent Switcher->Options->New
Add this to Description:
crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com
Then this to User Agent:
Googlebot/2.1 (+Verifying Googlebot - Webmasters/Site owners Help)
Remove the rest of the field to blank,then press ok,
Go to tools again and select crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com
Now if you go to a forum that you are not registered at you should be google bot.
You need not register to view the forum now
Cuda - please advisejust to be on the safe side
Not necessarily true. phpbb treats bots like users, so you can set permissions for them. If you want to prevent web crawlers from accessing certain forums, you set permissions accordingly.Tom In VA wrote:http://www.d3scene.com/forum/firefox/32 ... e-bot.html
We all know how annoying it is to register at a forum just to view the contents in it.
You can look at the contents in forums if you act as a Google bot.
This can be easily achieved.
Firstly install this to your firefox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
Restart firefox.
Then go to tools Default User Agent->User Agent Switcher->Options->New
Add this to Description:
crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com
Then this to User Agent:
Googlebot/2.1 (+Verifying Googlebot - Webmasters/Site owners Help)
Remove the rest of the field to blank,then press ok,
Go to tools again and select crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com
Now if you go to a forum that you are not registered at you should be google bot.
You need not register to view the forum now