Yahoo! Slurp Spider

[ecampbell]

I just clicked on the "Who's Online" link at the bottom of the Forums page saw that and GOOGLY SPIDER. What's with that?

 

[imkms]

I just clicked on the "Who's Online" link at the bottom of the Forums page saw that and GOOGLY SPIDER. What's with that?

These are Search Engine BOTs gathering information from the webpages for use in their own Search Engines. Not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[lgabrick]

The web BOT's troll through webpages online every few weeks and find links on the site and other sites that could link to this site and move this site up on Google or Yahoo. Which could definitely be a good thing.

 

[Teegate]

Ed,

You can see how well they work by posting to a thread and later in the day or sometimes within the hour if you do a search on Google or Yahoo your post will already be listed. On one occasion it was minutes later I found one of my posts.


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