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What is a Yahoo Slurp Spider?

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by MitchellCooley, 2007/07/21.

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    Every now and again I look at who is on-line and I see Yahoo, or MSN XXXX followed by the word "spider" , what is that?
     
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    A "spider" is a term used to describe a software program belonging to a search engine. Search engines "index" the WWW by sending these spiders to WWW sites. The spider "crawls" all of the links in all of the available web pages of the site and it records the information it finds or sends the info back home to it's "mother ". The information is then stored in the search engine database and is used for results when people search for things. Other terms that means the same thing are "robot" or "bot" (short for robot ". A robot does its job automatically once it is started up.

    http://www.searchtools.com/robots/
     
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    learn something every day.

    Thanks for the reply

    Mitch
     
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