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What do bots do with a search engine? I understand botspam on the content side where they just generate keyword-"rich" pages trying for SEO, but it sounds like
by sundarurfriend 5y ago
What do bots do with a search engine?
I understand botspam on the content side where they just generate keyword-"rich" pages trying for SEO, but it sounds like they're running searches on your search engine in this case, and I don't understand the purpose of that.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI'm honestly not entirely sure what they are trying to do. My best guess is possibly it's an attempt at manipulating a suggestions algorithm, but I don't even persist query data so it's a bit of a waste. But maybe they think I'm backed by Google or Bing?