what are Spiders.......?

[Dock Shunter]

Forgive my ignorance but at the bottom of the forum where it tells you how many members and guests are online it says we have 30 spiders.........
What are Spiders......
( And don't be a smart ar@~s and say a creepy crawley with 6/8 legs)

[Tank]

Creepy cra.... oh!   

They are what Search Engines use to search through forums and gather information, and therefore appear when people type in a phrase on Google etc.

[Sprintex]

Yep, otherwise known as "bots" - short for web-robots 


Paul

[Newportnobby]

Forgive my ignorance but at the bottom of the forum where it tells you how many members and guests are online it says we have 30 spiders.........
What are Spiders......
( And don't be a smart ar@~s and say a creepy crawley with 6/8 legs)

I had to ask too Wouldn't be so bad but I knew what a 'bot' is. Doh

[poliss]

Nah, this is a spider. :-)

[moogle]

Well as long as they stay on the screen I'll be ok.

[H]

Nah, this is a spider. :-)

Nope, that's a spiders web. 

H.