The Lemon Fool

Who is Alexa [Bot] , often seen lurking ?
Obviously an automated process, but doing what exactly ?
(I assume the similar Google Adsense bot monitors/controls the ads at the top of the page)

Alexa dot com

Alexa is a website analytics company that analyzes both the content and the traffic of the web. We crawl the web in order to analyze the sites linking to other sites and identify and classify websites.

Thanks, I will check out their site.http://www.alexa.com/
(Part of Amazon, which is interesting)

Just spotted a Bing [Bot] also...

Are these registered users? Or does the BB s/w automatically track/allow these [bots]? Which presumably are read-only and never want to post anything.

gryff