Question about online users

[Alicit]

Hello all!
Sometimes in the list of active users I see strange names like Google Adsense [Bot] and Google[Bot]. Those names, surely, are gray and unclickable. What does it mean? Can someone explain me?

Sincerely,
Alicit.

[Avronax]

I am not sure about it, but I think that is the Google ads at the bottom of the index page.

[Henhouse]

These are Web crawlers. How Google, Yahoo, and many other search engines gather and collect data is by method on web crawlers which read the page, collect data, or update it. They access our forums about 40+ times a day collecting new content. It simply is to show that they are scanning the stuff.

[Alicit]

I understand it now. Thank you Henhouse and Avronax.