Thursday, October 28, 2021
Bot oddity
This blog always has 3 or 4 real readers and lots of fake-reader bots. The reals tend to be partial Luddites like me, sticking with older versions of Windows and browsers. (I saw a Windows Vista last week!) Bots always use the latest Chrome and Win 10. (Come to think of it, I haven't seen any Win 11 yet.)
Lately the bots have been following a simple pattern.
More bots on even days, less bots on odd days. Sometimes the rhythm skips a day and flips the even-odd.
Presumably the low point, around 150 per day, represents the baseline random assortment of bots without daily schedules, and the peaks are added by one bot-center that hits this blog as part of an odd-day group or an even-day group.
But why? What do bots gain by "reading" a blog that has only a handful of actual readers? They're sure as hell not learning what Influencers think. It's a puzzle.
More bots on even days, less bots on odd days. Sometimes the rhythm skips a day and flips the even-odd.
Presumably the low point, around 150 per day, represents the baseline random assortment of bots without daily schedules, and the peaks are added by one bot-center that hits this blog as part of an odd-day group or an even-day group.
But why? What do bots gain by "reading" a blog that has only a handful of actual readers? They're sure as hell not learning what Influencers think. It's a puzzle.Labels: Asked and unanswered, Metrology
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