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  1. 10-Sep-2008 #1
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    what's a spider?

    Only noticed this today, at top of the forum catergories;

    Currently active users 8 Members. 4 Guests. 2 Spiders?

    What do you mean by spiders?
    Last edited by dracenstein; 10-Sep-2008 at 09:18 PM.
    "and I looked and beheld, a zombie stamped with the number of the Beast"
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  2. 10-Sep-2008 #2
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    I think its like a spam bot. Could be wrong though. They sound tough!! Kinda scary ya know?
    "When the dead walk, we must stop the killing, or lose the war."
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    It's a search engine bot, known as a "web crawler" or "spider." From wikipedia.org:

    "Many sites, in particular search engines, use spidering as a means of providing up-to-date data. Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for later processing by a search engine that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches."
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    Thanks.

    Didn't have to wait long for an answer!

    Just thought the website had evolved it's own spiders
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    I still think it sounds creepy. . .
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    Quote Originally Posted by dracenstein View Post
    Just thought the website had evolved it's own spiders
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    Isn't that what helped crash UAL the other day?
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    *runs around placing turned-over glasses over these damn Yahoo and MSN spider bots*

    Now stay there and die of starvation!
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    *runs around placing turned-over glasses over these damn Yahoo and MSN spider bots*

    Now stay there and die of starvation!
    Now freeze it, tie a string around it, and when it comes to, you'll have a pet spider bot on a leash!
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