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What are spiders (bots)?
July 16th, 2008, 11:26
Hey, I just looked on the currently active users and there was a Yahoo slurp spider and an MSN bot spider …
What are those ?
What are those ?
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July 16th, 2008, 12:00
These are the thingies which feed the links into Google, Yahoo, all Search engines on the world.
Each search engine has its own bots.
Also called "(Web)Crawlers".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
Each search engine has its own bots.
Also called "(Web)Crawlers".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)
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