Who Is Sunnyvale? And Why Are They Permitted To Mess With Our Websites???

Sunnyvale is a city in California. Not sure I understand your question.

What do you mean?

Sunnyvale is a center of High-Tech companies. Yahoo is the best known.

Permitted ??? Do You know what internet is ? You need a permit in North Korea and some other places, not here. Otherwise: If You do not like anybody to see Your stuff don't upload anything.

When I look at my stats, I get tons of views from Sunnyvale. I wonder if that is what the OP is talking about. I've wondered that myself, tho I don't think who/whatever it is messes with the website.

What do you mean by "mess with"? Is Sunnyvale going in there changing things?

Maybe Sunnyvale is "blocking" her pictures like what was going on in the other thread so no one else can see.

(snarckasm)

I always guessed Sunnyvale was a bot.

I'm going with bot.

Kathleen,

It is most likely a "bot." You can search for bot in the discussions and find a lot of info about them. Basically they are indexing your work and are a good thing...no worries~

Michelle, I'm well aware. Guess I need to borrow Joseph's term and admit that I was being snarckasmic in my above post. I'll go sit in the corner now.

Kathleen P...I was addressing Kathleen the OP :)

Oops, sorry Michelle. I really need to go sit in the corner now!

I think you'll find it's in cahoots with Beverly Hills, and New York ... ;-)

- Richard Reeve
ReevePhotos.com

I know people get tired of answering the same questions over and over :)

Putting 2+2 together, Yahoo is in Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale appears to be home to an indexing bot, therefore "Sunnyvale" visits are probably Yahoo bots indexing our images.

I thought that was where Buffy the vampire slayer lived...

so not enough vampires for buffy to slay then? :P

I thought vampires didn't like the sun?

Sunnyvale didn't seem that sunny in the show

unless they are moving things around your site, a view is a view and nothing more. and if it's a lot then it's a bot and you want those. nothing or no one is messing with a site. and at least it sounds warm.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Well, since the OP seems to have vanished after asking the question I am closing this now.

Sunnyville is a bot btw.

Sunnyvale is taking over in my Views page...every day more! They are indexing my images like crazy....(:

Perhaps then you should take all your work off the internet then if you don't want them indexed.

Internet laws allow servers to index and even hold copies of web pages to allow for more efficient servers. If servers didn't store copies then FAA servers could get overwhelmed when an image was being viewed often. Todays internet is a lot more complex then years ago. And to say "Bot" when you don't know for sure that it is really a bot is wrong also. All we know is server location that is given. If your image is being indexed updated and stored consider that a good hing. A very good thing.
If your image is linked on a social media site or blog (legal) , then when someones clicks that link the sever for the site gets its stored copy of the page. Its a lot more efficient that way then retrieving one from FAA. Then it just has to register a hit on FAA. So you see a server location not a viewer location. The server is supporting the distribution of pages that are linked off FAA. Thats how it works. Those views may trigger more visits to update the copies. Or if it is a large social media site it may store pages on servers worldwide. So you may get a visit from China or the UK or Germany also also. Get it yet? Its about efficiency and scalability. Its best to think in terms of servers and proxy servers instead of bots. This is 2015 not 2005.

Bradford this is the best description I have heard on here and have realized for some time that all the hits on an image is not all bots. When one tweets and the tweet or image is viewed it does not register as an individual IP. So when people are saying it is a not it may in fact be a real person who is viewing the image through another server.

Bradford;

Your response above needs to be placed in the groups FAQ section so that folks could at least link to it when the next Bot question comes up.