Spiders

[003Robin457]

I saw on the bottom of the index the line that shows you how many people are online. It had Gest, Users, and Spiders. I'm new to Forms so, whats a Spider?

[JoeHardyRocks]

Sorry, i'm pretty new here too.

[SDLagent]

From what I understand a spider is a person from a search engine like Google or Yahoo!, but I could be wrong. The spiders are part of the recent forum upgrade, before that they didn't show up on the "Who's Online" page.

[SkyWarp]

Spiders are computers that run around the internet looking for information.  Spiders can be good or bad.  Search engines use them to find and gather information for their search engine indexes.  So each time you see Google, Yahoo, Ask, Alexa, or MSN down at the bottom of the page, that means some computer from those companies is looking at this web site to find more information for their search engines. 

[Q]

Why are they called spiders?

[SkyWarp]

Why are they called spiders?

Because they basically help you and I connect all information on the world wide WEB.

[SkyWarp]

With the latest update to the forums, several additional spiders from various search engines around the world have been added to the documentation list.  What that means is that you should see additional names on the list at various times when you visit the web site.