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Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: death on July 23, 2008, 11:54:14 am

Title: what is a "spider"
Post by: death on July 23, 2008, 11:54:14 am

When I was looking to se who was online here it said "Yahoo spider" MSN Spider"  what does that mean?

just curious

Title: Re: what is a "spider"
Post by: fuzzytomcat on July 23, 2008, 06:08:36 pm

Hey Death,

As Per Wikipedia  - A web crawler (also known as a web spider, web robot, or—especially in the FOAF community—web scutter) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. Other less frequently used names for web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, and worms.

Some web sites (Google, Yahoo, & MSN) do this all the time on forums to keep updated because of the type of traffic they have.  If your on a lot of popular forums with the same screen name, you can google your screen name and see the spiders at work.

 ;D

Title: Re: what is a "spider"
Post by: death on July 23, 2008, 08:52:05 pm

ahhh that makes sense..... thanks  didnt know there was such a creature witha name.