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GaryVoshol

08-03-2006 22:43

What are spiders?

On the main page, it tells how many users, guests and spiders are reading the boards. What are spiders?

KenWittlief

08-03-2006 22:48

Re: What are spiders?

automated search engines, like Google and Yahoo?

EricH

08-03-2006 22:50

Re: What are spiders?

Quote:

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

automated search engines, like Google and Yahoo?

That's how my dad explained it to me. They're spinning the World Wide Web.

Madison

08-03-2006 23:04

Re: What are spiders?

Spiders crawl through websites, following links to other pages and ranking those pages against other sites so as to help increase search result relevancy on sites like Yahoo! and Google.

Mike AA

09-03-2006 00:47

Re: What are spiders?

some spiders are also copying the whole webpage such as wayback machine. They copy and store for future reference.

-Mike

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