dirtyamerica Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 I'm a big user of many forums but I haven't ever heard of the term "spider". Until now. There are registered users, guests and spiders in this forum. I checked the faq's and couldn't find what they are so.... What are spiders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Web trawlers. little automated programs that follow hyperlinks and log the site urls and pack them off to google or whatever search engine is using them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
husmusen Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 So named because they crawl around the (world wide) web. Regards, Husmusen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtyamerica Posted May 18, 2006 Author Share Posted May 18, 2006 haha, I get it now. Where I'm from they're known as spybots or the like. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 well they don't actually spy, the just send urls to a computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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