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Spiders a craw'lin..

Discussion in 'Site Feedback and Suggestions' started by Benny26, Dec 10, 2010.

  1. Benny26 TechSpot Paladin

    Somethings got me bugged while looking at who's online. It seems that if you're not a member, you're a Guest, but if you're not a Guest or a member then you must be a Spider..

    Yahoo! Slurp Spider?...Askjeeves Spider?..and judging by the names i'm thinking their also might be a Google Spider somewhere aswell lol. Although it's quite cool to be called a Spider, i never see them post (just watching us with their 16 eyes).

    Maybe i'm an *****, but what are they??? (besides Spiders).
  2. Julio Franco TechSpot Editor

  3. Benny26 TechSpot Paladin

    Ahh..I understand now. Hence the name i see.

    Thanks Julio.
  4. captaincranky TechSpot Addict

    Here you can even track the crawlers; http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-Files/CrawlTrack.shtml So I suppose you could, (very loosely), call that a spider spider.

    I've seen a web crawler that hunts ISO files also, ostensibly to enable software houses to track illegal downloads. I should have bookmarked that, maybe somebody else knows what it is.

    A Goole search on "illegal download tracker" returns results such as these; http://www.google.com/search?client...d trackers&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=7a5ff6e4754518c3