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I am signed in and it shows the registered people. Me Grammarcia and then Google (bot). Is this a person registered under that name or a hacker? Just curious. It is Sat at 4:00 pm my time BTW. I went back and tried to click on the name to look at the profile but it was not one I could look at.
Big Daddy*Speedy*Doc*Spot*Sandy*Spongebob*Kolasas*Mrs. Puff*Larry*Gary*Joy*Liberty*Troy*Gabrielle*Ryan*Chelsea
Eddie*Maddie*London*Irwin*Miley*Oliver*Marianna*Dalton*
Chevin*Peeping Tom*April*Hannah*Peanut*Brandon*Brandi*
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Ok now at 4:15 pm my time it has a yahoo (bot) signed in and again I can not click on the name
Big Daddy*Speedy*Doc*Spot*Sandy*Spongebob*Kolasas*Mrs. Puff*Larry*Gary*Joy*Liberty*Troy*Gabrielle*Ryan*Chelsea
Eddie*Maddie*London*Irwin*Miley*Oliver*Marianna*Dalton*
Chevin*Peeping Tom*April*Hannah*Peanut*Brandon*Brandi*
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A funny thing as soon as I post about them here. I go back to the board index to see who is signed in and they are gone.
Big Daddy*Speedy*Doc*Spot*Sandy*Spongebob*Kolasas*Mrs. Puff*Larry*Gary*Joy*Liberty*Troy*Gabrielle*Ryan*Chelsea
Eddie*Maddie*London*Irwin*Miley*Oliver*Marianna*Dalton*
Chevin*Peeping Tom*April*Hannah*Peanut*Brandon*Brandi*
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In phpBB3, search engines are set an account which they'll use to browse our forum with. In phpBB2, this feature had yet to exist, and search engines use to mess up sessions and eat up a lot of bandwidth. I don't know the full details, but apparently this change to search engine management was very beneficial.

It's a great thing that search engines have found their way here. That way we'll get more traffic! #D
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OH Well thats great then I will stop worrying about that then
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I know, me too! (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) (!) 8| 8| 8) 8)
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really! That's awesome! I'm so excited now!
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As a result of our site being down for over a month, we were "kicked off" from search engines, including Google. It'll take some time for Google to list us again, unfortunately.
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that's how i found it!
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Good news. While I was on tonight the yahoo bot is back.
Big Daddy*Speedy*Doc*Spot*Sandy*Spongebob*Kolasas*Mrs. Puff*Larry*Gary*Joy*Liberty*Troy*Gabrielle*Ryan*Chelsea
Eddie*Maddie*London*Irwin*Miley*Oliver*Marianna*Dalton*
Chevin*Peeping Tom*April*Hannah*Peanut*Brandon*Brandi*
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