When questions are asked on SO, I'm sure they are constantly being cached by web crawlers; do these count toward the "viewed" counter on question pages? Or does SO at least try to fish those out?
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1This is a great opportunity to advertise my old but related and still unanswered question about visitors.– animuson StaffModDec 3, 2012 at 2:43
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No, they do not.
We test user-agents and know (well, as long as it's a known web spider user agent) if the HTTP request is coming from a web crawler or not.
answered Dec 3, 2012 at 6:09
