Aol Chat: Quote from AIM. He Thought "Google" on his forum was really them trying.. idk what he thought but I thought it was sort of funny. I had to explain the purpose of it.
Haha, funny as hell. It amazes me that he knew how to ban an IP address, but did not know about search spiders
Haha. That is really funny! Although, this might be another stupid question: how did he know they were on his site? The only way I've ever known when Google had crawled one of my sites was when I started getting traffic from there. -Danielle
Google has a list of IP'S vBulletins and SMF has settings if you want them to convert the IP into (i.e, yahoo spider, google spider etc.) But apparently on SMF it just says "google" haha.
Now thats funny but it can be like that when you start out thinking the wrong people are spying on your site!