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<blockquote data-quote="lugoismad" data-source="post: 427362" data-attributes="member: 16518"><p>Hate to burst anyone's bubble, but a high portion of those "guests" are web crawling bots. Mostly gathering statistics for various search engines, companies, things like that. You would be really surprised at how much is going on under the covers of the internet with automated tools like this. A lot of this is information that is farmed and then sold to various marketing companies. </p><p></p><p>Eg, a company may setup a web bot to crawl the internet looking for references to "Evinrude" and gather information about the people discussing this, and if its positive or negative. Then they could attempt to sell this information to marketers, who hope to learn what areas of the country to concentrate on, age ranges, income brackets, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lugoismad, post: 427362, member: 16518"] Hate to burst anyone's bubble, but a high portion of those "guests" are web crawling bots. Mostly gathering statistics for various search engines, companies, things like that. You would be really surprised at how much is going on under the covers of the internet with automated tools like this. A lot of this is information that is farmed and then sold to various marketing companies. Eg, a company may setup a web bot to crawl the internet looking for references to "Evinrude" and gather information about the people discussing this, and if its positive or negative. Then they could attempt to sell this information to marketers, who hope to learn what areas of the country to concentrate on, age ranges, income brackets, etc. [/QUOTE]
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