Why is Google activating an account ?

[hackrishna]

I used to see Google bots appearing in the online list a long time ago. But from last week i noticed there are three to four Google bots at a time! I hope that is normal too.

But just now in 'who's online', i saw a Google bot activating their account ? Why is this so ? Is everything normal ?? Does this happen in Forums ??

[TheListener]

This is nothing to be concerned with.

It does happen.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

It is normal to see up to 5, sometimes temporarily even more Google bots. The sections the bots try to access, by following links or trying out links that they "assume" to be there, will show up in your whos online as valid actions, even though the bots will not have been able to access the sections or actually use them.

It's the same with guests, a guest may show up as reading a topic they have no access to, even though in reality they are only seeing a "register or log in" notice.

[hackrishna]

This is nothing to be concerned with.

It does happen.

Thank you Old Fossil

It is normal to see up to 5, sometimes temporarily even more Google bots. The sections the bots try to access, by following links or trying out links that they "assume" to be there, will show up in your whos online as valid actions, even though the bots will not have been able to access the sections or actually use them.

It's the same with guests, a guest may show up as reading a topic they have no access to, even though in reality they are only seeing a "register or log in" notice.

Yeah i have seen guests on boards where i haven't set permissions for them to access  BTW ... Thank you for the reply