Search engine spiders/bots in their own usergroup

[trilljester]

Hi all,

I used to remember this as a feature in IPB, but it's not in VB at all. I'd like to add this feature into VB as a hack/mod but need a little direction on where to look.

I'd like to have Search engine robots/spiders put into their own special usergroup so they can browse the board as a registered user as opposed to a guest (which they are treated as now). I searched VB.org, but could not find a hack or anything that explains how to accomplish this.

Any suggestions on where I should look to make this modification? Thanks!