what's a spider?

[dracenstein]

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?

[clanglee]

I think its like a spam bot. Could be wrong though. They sound tough!! Kinda scary ya know? :D

[DubiousComforts]

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."

[dracenstein]

Thanks.

Didn't have to wait long for an answer!

Just thought the website had evolved it's own spiders:D

[clanglee]

I still think it sounds creepy. . .

[Bub666]

Just thought the website had evolved it's own spiders:D

:confused:

[Skippy911sc]

Isn't that what helped crash UAL the other day?

[MinionZombie]

*runs around placing turned-over glasses over these damn Yahoo and MSN spider bots*

Now stay there and die of starvation! :elol:

[bassman]

*runs around placing turned-over glasses over these damn Yahoo and MSN spider bots*

Now stay there and die of starvation! :elol:

Now freeze it, tie a string around it, and when it comes to, you'll have a pet spider bot on a leash!:D