Bots

[davido]

I have noticed from time-to-time that there are a variety of Bots 'reading' various posts.
Today I noticed that a Bot was viewing a member profile: Majestic-12 [Bot] Viewing member profile

Now, I wondered why this might be necessary.
Whilst I can only read my own profile which is as it should be, perhaps this bot was reading other members' profiles.
Any comments?

[Josh]

It is the job of bots to read everything, including user profiles. Bots can only read the public part of the member profiles, so no problem.

[BarryG]

The bots are web crawlers, or "spiders", to index any found public pages (including public profiles) for search engines. It's normal.