when I see who's online there are things that say Yahoo spider and other types of spiders. What are they?
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when I see who's online there are things that say Yahoo spider and other types of spiders. What are they?
Could be a webcrawler of some sort. Search engines (and others) use them to explore pages to determine content so as to be able to index them. They're basically bots that traverse a sites pages automatically.
Here is Wikipedia's definition of a webcrawler/spider.
I could, however, be wrong.
Bruce - I expect these are the usual search engine ''robotz'' that crawl the web gathering data for searches.
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What is a spider? Were is Betty?This is just made for her to answer.
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I am the official spider killer to my girlfriend. She saw a little 1 last night and jumped about 3 ft. from sitting on the couch. They don't bother me, but she is deathly afraid of em.
They are the search engine robots spidering searching and cataloging the website. They found us in a big way almost a year ago now....
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