spiders

[kizza]

spiders

i was looking at the whos online bit and it said there were 2 spiders online the google spider and yahoo spider what are they?

 

[mas cambios]

Re: spiders

They are indexing bots for search engines.

They browse the site, looking for new pages that can be uploaded to google and Yahoo etc.

 

[kizza]

Re: spiders

oh they cant do any harm can they?

 

[mas cambios]

Re: spiders

Some can in theory (and depending on your definition of harm) but most are harmless.

Without them search engines would be a mess with a few listings, often out of date.

More information can be found here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

 

[Wolf]

Re: spiders

Oh come on A_A you could have come up with a much funnier answer to that question.

 

[mas cambios]

Re: spiders

True, I think missed a great chance there. :embarrassed:

 

[jimmy33]

Re: spiders

Better late than never, come on, hit us with your best line