Tech savvy internet sorts..........

Caesium137

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When there are 'robots' on the forum what exactly are they doing when they are 'viewing' a thread?

What is this information gathered for / used for?

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I assume they're gathering information about us for when the head honcho of the top secret society delivers the news to us officially that the world is flat and that we are actually all just part of a huge version of The Truman Show or something like that ;)
 
I assume they're gathering information about us for when the head honcho of the top secret society delivers the news to us officially that the world is flat and that we are actually all just part of a huge version of The Truman Show or something like that ;)

I knew it!
 
I have seen it being used on general forums. They capture geo demographic information from your profile (if available). They then used key words to define the subject matter and predefined sentiments to segment you into differing values, beliefs and behaviours.
They can then use this to target posts and marketing to those groups without you realising. A lot of companies use this, I saw it while working for a charity.
 
Crawling web pages so that they can be added to a search engine's results page.

For example, if you were to type in 'Tech savvy internet sorts fmttm' 2 seconds after you posted this thread, it would not appear in a Google search.

But, once it has been crawled by these 'robots', they will start to appear in search results.
 
Mainly analytics, varying degrees of sophistication and some that are harvesting data for less 'honourable' reasons.
 
I would image that they are needed for getting the site ranked on Google and for targeted advertising.
 
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