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GeraldChainsaw

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spiders
« on: November 14, 2015, 08:53:11 am »
when people are logged on,  or visitors,  what does the spiders mean?

joe3320

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Re: spiders
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2015, 11:17:16 am »
Spiders are used to feed pages to search engines.
It's called a spider because it crawls over the Web.
Another term for these programs is webcrawler.
Because most Web pages contain links to other pages, a spider can start almost anywhere.