Bot accounts on forums

[Andover]

I run a forum based game and I am curious since I have seen this on other forums that there are accounts on them such as:

Yahoo [Bot]
Google [Bot]


How do I do something like that so the bots dont need to show up as guest and I can easily see the bots?

 

[timk777]

Their both just web crawlers. They go through your forum and collect information and send it to their server. I'm not exactly sure what your asking in the second question so please rephrase?

 

[Andover]

I am familiar with crawlers however my question is if its possible to assign accounts such as Yahoo [Bot] and Google [Bot] to the crawlers

 

[Python]

I think when Google or whatever is particularly interested they may register or they may not be able to see all they need.

So I assume you can't directly put them in there, sorry.