Spiders?

[dirtyamerica]

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?

[insane_alien]

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.

[husmusen]

So named because they crawl around the (world wide) web.

 

Regards,

Husmusen.

[dirtyamerica]

haha, I get it now. Where I'm from they're known as spybots or the like.

 

Thanks.

[insane_alien]

well they don't actually spy, the just send urls to a computer.