Spiders...........what are they? (1 Viewer)

[mikemiller1955]

I'm not sure who to ask or where to post this?

When I go to the page,

"Who's Online"

and view guests and members activity,

I always see MSNBot Spiders, Google Spiders, and Yahoo! Slurp Spiders.

What are these?

Does anybody know?

 

[fmethorst]

They are web crawlers so when you use those search engines you can find things we've posted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

 

[mikemiller1955]

They are web crawlers so when you use those search engines you can find things we've posted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

Thank you Frank.......

So these are not viruses........and they are not harmful........and all they gather is posted information to organize for future searches????

Correct?

 

[fmethorst]

Yes, that's the gist of it.

 

[Tony Neville]

You are right guys they are good search finders.

They work like this:-

if you are in google and you want to find TREEFROG TREASURES for example.

As you type the word in they start to search TR and they will already get finding add in the EE and they narrow it down. at this point for example they will have found anything to do with the word TREE all in micro seconds. Once you have typed the full word you are looking for and pressed return the Google bot that is at that word will fire it back to google ASAP.

This is speed things up when searching. They also hang around in sites that are popular.

They are designed speed searching up.

Tony