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Title: Spiders
Post by: SA Chris on October 18, 2006, 02:05:50 pm

On the main page it says;

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Spiders active in past 15 minutes:
Yahoo spider, MSN spider

Can someone please tell me wtf a spider is?  :shrug:

Title: Re: Spiders
Post by: account_inactive on October 18, 2006, 02:06:46 pm

I thought that too................but didn't want to sound stupid :whistle:

Title: Re: Spiders
Post by: Bubba on October 18, 2006, 02:10:06 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

It's really just for interest, and to seperate the spiders from real guests.

Title: Re: Spiders
Post by: SA Chris on October 18, 2006, 03:20:50 pm

Quote from: Dylan on October 18, 2006, 02:06:46 pm

I thought that too................but didn't want to sound stupid :whistle:

It comes naturally to me.

Disappointed it's something that dull, had visions of those spider robots from Minority Report scanning the web like they scan your retina.