What's a spider?

[kenskibum]

At the bottom of the forums page it lists members, non-members and spiders online. Just wondering what a "spider" is in relation to the forums? Thanks -Ken

 

[gdarwin]

Search engines (google, yahoo, etc) checking the site out.

 

[sundude90]

A spider is a search engine like google or yahoo that searches the forum to make threads and stuff to appear in search engine like Google.

 

[cybok0]

They have eight legs and have fangs that inject venom.

Well you can learn more about them here.

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[VinceT3]

also called webcrawlers.. because the go through the site, link by link to store searchable terms