[shadowbot]

I figured i'd put this in the "bugs" section.

In the Whats Going On? area of the site theres a section that says

Total guests that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 826

Among these it says: Yahoo Spiders, Google Spiders, etc.

What exactly are these "spiders"?

[saturnsc]

Howstuffworks "How Internet Search Engines Work"

Basically, they're software that visit websites to add to the search engine's information, or something like that.

[Raptor235]

yep hit it right on the nail... in order for google to exist they need a way to read all the websites in the world... and that's done by spiders who crawl through every website and read all the information

[horselover]

http://aboutmyplanet.com/community/s...eing-here.html

I asked about this a short time ago when I was seeing this while checking the online status. It's quite funny to see when these spiders get an error message when they try to reply to a topic or PM a member. They just can't do it.

[Raptor235]

yeah they're kindda dumb and just go everywhere they can but they can't do anything they can just read things...