What is the purpose of a robot account? Is this big brother? OR big corporation spying on us? Thanks for asking the question Anson.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en Basically they are web crawlers that search the forum, then when someone does a search for a particular topic or item, the browser uses an algorithm that provides links to the most likely results.
Thanks, now that makes a little more sense to me, I wondered how info was retrieved so quickly off the web from a post placed on the Buick V-8 page. Larry.