…Robots?

[Cheez]

Every so often, I see a Google/Bing bot on forums. Just wondering, what are they doing here?

Are they collecting things for advertising?

Are they secretly the NSA?

Are they rogues, and beginning their overthrowing of the human race?

…so…

What do they do?

 

[TheCakeGod]

They just collect data. More info: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182072?hl=en

 

[imtotallychris]

In other words, they update the forums technically.