Bots
Fanatic bots
Submitted by CAPSLOCK2000 on 14 August, 2006 - 17:05I registered this domain about a week ago, and added some content over the last few days. As far as I know nobody has linked to me yet, as nobody (except for a few friends) even knows that I registered the domain.
But the bots know about it allready. Google was one of the first, and is know indexing my site every few hours.
I probably triggered it myself by having my blog send a notification, as the first entry in the logs not by myself is from blo.gs/ping.php
Less then 20 seconds later the Googlebot was on my site. This surprises me, as blo.gs is owned by Yahoo.
5 seconds after that Blogslive reported for duty, and after another 20 seconds was joined by Ominexplorer. Technoratie joined in at 2 minutes after the initial ping, followed at the heels by Sphere Scout (never heard of them).
Amazingly enough Yahoo is (so far) the last one to show up. 2 days after the blo.gs entry the Yahoo bot finally showed up.
Some might be intimated by those bots, it does give you a Big Brother feeling.
I however think this is the way toward the future. Computers are getting better and better in automatically finding and linking information. These kind of automated response systems will eventually lead to "artificial intelligence", or, a bit more down to earth, "behaviour that is so complex that it is indistinguishable from having human intelligence".




