Does anyone know why the "who's on the forum" list at the bottom of the page would show two bots?  Are they suppose to be there or could I have a problem?

It has always been that way, so long as I remember seeing.

Google wrote:

Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot (sometimes also called a "spider"). Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index.

We use a huge set of computers to fetch (or "crawl") billions of pages on the web. Googlebot uses an algorithmic process: computer programs determine which sites to crawl, how often, and how many pages to fetch from each site.

Basically Googlebot is the thing responsible for providing up-to-date information in your searches. So whenever you run a Google Search that brings up an IAHT page, you can know that Googlebot is the reason it's showing up in your search results.

I presume you really know what the bots are, but I'll offer this from SearchSOA anyway:

Quote :

A bot (short for "robot") is a program that operates as an agent for a user or another program or simulates a human activity. On the Internet, the most ubiquitous bots are the programs, also called spiders or crawlers, that access Web sites and gather their content for search engine indexes.

They have been, at sometime, invited by the site owners to index the forum content so that the site can be found in a Google or Bing search.  I have them index one of my web sites and prohibit them from most of another.

That said, I've found it odd that this site seems to have two resident bots, normally Google will visit a site on a periodic basis - they apparently have their own method of determining when to revisit.

So they belong and are not doing anything I should worry about, if this is correct thank you to all. If this is incorrect slap me and say "no fool" and please try again.

Nope, dey's not a problem. Unless you don't want to be found ...