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What Are Spiders?

Discussion in 'Site Suggestions and Questions' started by Georgia Fin, May 25, 2008.

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  1. May 25, 2008 #1
    Georgia Fin

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    I'm sure this is a dumb question, so I guess it makes me dumb, but in the "Currently Active Users" it says members, visitiors, and spiders?
     
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  2. May 25, 2008 #2
    Celtkin

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    Not dumb at all. Spiders are web robots that "crawl" websites to index their content

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
     
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  3. May 25, 2008 #3
    Alex44

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    Well son I think you're old enough to know the truth.

    You see when a bot loves a forum, well.....ask your mom.
     
  4. May 25, 2008 #4
    byroan

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  5. May 25, 2008 #5
    Celtkin

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  7. May 26, 2008 #7
    CrunchTime

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    They are usually found co-habitating with FeedFetchers,FeedBurners and Slurps .

    I hope that answers you question.:pointlol:
     
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  8. May 26, 2008 #8
    azfinfanmang

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  9. May 28, 2008 #9
    Ducken

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    I was just about to come here and ask the same thing:up:
     
  10. May 28, 2008 #10
    Section126

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    I am scared now. Are we gonna die?
     
  11. May 28, 2008 #11
    CrunchTime

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    If you are a male spider you will probably will die after mating with the female who likes to eat the male after breeding.

    At least you will have a smile in your face
     

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