Who Are the Spiders ?

[Mira]

Question to the mods.

I recently checked "who's online" and noticed that apart from the members and the guests there were about 50 names ending with "spider" reading posts ?
Who are they ?

 

[Manc Skipper]

I believe they are the Martian members..

 

[Mira]

I believe they are the Martian members..

Or the members from.... the Twilight Zone

 

[spud_meister]

I believe they are the Martian members..

led by an adrogynous freak with bad teeth but a good singing voice

 

[Antagony]

There are lots of spiders on the worldwide web.

 

[Tashah]

Question to the mods.

I recently checked "who's online" and noticed that apart from the members and the guests there were about 50 names ending with "spider" reading posts ?
Who are they ?

A search engine spider is a program (bot) that crawls the web. It harvests web page information and links. This information is later indexed and stored in the search engine database. This method is how most search engines collect the web information (data/links) that is displayed when you visit their portal and conduct a search.

 

[Mira]

A search engine spider is a program (bot) that crawls the web. It harvests web page information and links. This information is later indexed and stored in the search engine database. This method is how most search engines collect the web information (data/links) that is displayed when you visit their portal and conduct a search.

Thank you Tashah.

I understand internet a little less every day :doh

 

[Oftencold]

Here's an example.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPEfV1xeKrA"]YouTube- The Empress of the Racnoss.[/ame]