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Beyond The Spirits => Computer Clues => Topic started by: Hillhound on Feb 23, 2008, 07:21:39 PM

Title: Spiders?
Post by: Hillhound on Feb 23, 2008, 07:21:39 PM

On the "Who's Online" part of the board it says 1 Spider....

What is this?
Just interested!
 :ScratchHead:

Title: Re: Spiders?
Post by: Tina on Feb 23, 2008, 07:47:58 PM

It was explained once before so that I understood it. A search engine, like google for instance, sends out 'spiders' to look for what is happening and where. Then when you type in a key word in a search, like "ghost", it may offer up this site for you to look through.
It would be nicer if they called them crickets or ladybugs or something more acceptable.

Title: Re: Spiders?
Post by: MassMama on Feb 23, 2008, 08:56:53 PM

Yes your right Tina. The Spiders help our friends find their way to our site! If they like it and its what they are looking for ... they can join  :ThumbUp:

Title: Re: Spiders?
Post by: Hillhound on Feb 24, 2008, 03:29:26 AM

Thanks ladies, for a moment I thought it was something nasty!
 :eek:

Title: Re: Spiders?
Post by: MassMama on Feb 25, 2008, 12:46:41 PM

 :eek: I thought it was something Nasty when I first joined too ..  :shock: like where they lock up all the  :naughty: people or somethin  :laughmao:

Title: Re: Spiders?
Post by: Jim on Feb 25, 2008, 02:20:47 PM

Well I never thought of spiders as nasty, maybe creepy.   :smile:

Quote from: Tina on Feb 23, 2008, 07:47:58 PM

It was explained once before so that I understood it. A search engine, like google for instance, sends out 'spiders' to look for what is happening and where. Then when you type in a key word in a search, like "ghost", it may offer up this site for you to look through.
It would be nicer if they called them crickets or ladybugs or something more acceptable.

Tina is correct.  These "crawlers" index the pages they are crawling.  Without the spiders and the bots, we would have a hard time finding things on the internet.

Title: Re: Spiders?
Post by: patches on Feb 27, 2008, 12:49:12 AM

Hmmm, guess I must be missing something here!!!  :unsure:  What spiders are you talking about?   :ScratchHead:

Title: Re: Spiders?
Post by: Jim on Feb 27, 2008, 08:30:15 AM

A picture might help you understand what we are talking about:

(https://www.southernspirithunters.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk180%2FJimBaby%2FTutorial%2Fspiders.jpg&hash=1deb381e8ad19567ae9d142fa43ed73359b1a510)

John started the topic asking what a "Spider" was.

Title: Re: Spiders?
Post by: patches on Feb 28, 2008, 01:25:51 AM

Thanks, Jim,  :thx:  the picture helped!   :thx:  Now I see what they're talking about, but this doesn't really affect us in any way, right?   :ScratchHead:

Title: Re: Spiders?
Post by: Jim on Feb 28, 2008, 08:26:03 AM

Nope, shouldn't have any affect on you at all.  It's just nice to know information.