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metroixer 12-15-2005 12:50 PM

People who aren't logged in but online....
 
Okay we all have clicked the "see who's online" button right? Well just a question here...I understand the guest and stuff but "yahoo slurp spider" and "MSN spider"? What does that mean? :confused:

T-nex 12-15-2005 12:52 PM

They are bots from google and yahoo that eats the forums, and lays eggs and creates more google and yahoo spiders. Then they take ova tha world...

Nah... they are bots that slurps information from random places and then it's accesable on google or yahoo...

Rex Tirano 12-15-2005 12:56 PM

Yeah, I'm gonna quote Esus.

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Theres another thread on this furthur down the list..
anyway, they're search engine bots which save pages into the Google/Lycos etc database so they can link to it if people search for keywords on that page...

Or, as Death aptly put it:
"Spiders are not quite "Bots" as such. Spiders do exactly what spiders do in real life. They crawl the web, downloading things as they go. Spiders often download and save entire websites just to provide faster searches and word matches. They only do it on popular sites though, so this site must be quite popular.

Another feature of a spider is to gather information such as statistics, and hits. This is to figure out whether the website the spider is visiting is popular or unpopular. If it's popular, a second spider will be called in, and the two spiders will systematically download the website, and add it to the search info database.

The reason spider bots are assosciated with websearches, is because a spider bot gets sent around the web on most searches, looking for content that the database does not yet have. The spiders' first role though, is to check the database to see if any matches can be found. This all happens in a matter of miliseconds, and gets faster and faster as time passes.

A searchbot, is quite similar to a spider, only that it just seeks out content matches, then generates a link using php. The searchbots' role is really to take snippets of relevant data, that can be processed through php to appear on a results page. The spidered database pretty much "hints" the searchbot on where to look, and what to look for. For instance, if you searched for the word "Oddworld", the searchbot would ask the spiderbot to check the database for any websites that are listed to contain that word, then the spiderbot would tell the searchbot which ones contain that word, where they contain it, and what the URL is - once it does that, it puts those links onto the results page ready to go into php - then it searches the net accompanied by a spider, looking for content matches. Once those are found, links are created, and the list of results are put in order of best match to worst match.

Again, that all happens in a matter of miliseconds. The difference between a spider and a searchbot, is that the spider deals with content, and the searchbot deals with searches. Originally, there were only searchbots, and searches used to take ages, but now you can get to the most popular site in much less time."

How that helps.

- Rexy

metroixer 12-15-2005 01:00 PM

Hmm....Interesting...Wait doesen't that mean that every move we make are being watched!? Very closely...;0_0.

Cullen Heath 12-15-2005 02:32 PM

I DONT feel comfortable about this! Is there a way to get them outta here?

Rich 12-15-2005 02:35 PM

You're worried about a mindless robot exploring old threads so it can add them as possible results for a search engine? You = Fool.

metroixer 12-15-2005 04:58 PM

Yes....Yes I do. Given the fact that they might happen to go to the "what do you look like?" topics makes me feel uneasy. SO yea I am fool :p.

Nate 12-15-2005 07:46 PM

It's an unconscious computer program. It can't assess how attractive you are and tell you that you're ugly. Leave that to people like us.

Seriously, all they're doing is finding keywords in the pages and updating some statistics in a database. Nothing to get your titties in a twist about.

Impaler 12-16-2005 01:13 AM

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It's an unconscious computer program.

Just wait until the robots rise against us thats all i'm goin to say.....[

Havoc 12-16-2005 02:37 AM

Are we seriously having a discussion about search engine crawlers here? O.o

T-nex 12-16-2005 03:19 AM

Yes... Yes we are.

metroixer 12-16-2005 05:08 AM

Yes I understand nate BUT diden't an early post say that they put the information on google and such? THAT is what's making me worried.

T-nex 12-16-2005 06:29 AM

Why??? :-S It's good for the forum... Like... Once when you put "T-nex" in the searchbar on Google, it showed my Profile.. God i was proud... Now my name's on page three only :-( Anyways, it's good, cos the more stuff from our forum that shows up on google, the more people hear about us, and one amongst them might aswell be an Oddworld-fan...
Hail the SEARCH-BOTS!!

Havoc 12-16-2005 06:56 AM

Yup. It's not like it gives out any personal info, unless you loaded your profile with Social security number, bank account and IRS information.

metroixer 12-16-2005 07:02 AM

[QUOTE=T-nex]Why??? :-S It's good for the forum... Like... Once when you put "T-nex" in the searchbar on Google, it showed my Profile.. God i was proud... QUOTE]

Wow T-Nex. I did that to see if the same was for me and OH MY GOD. I have my very own page on almost everything I do in a chatroom I go to. The percentage of how many questions I ask, my behavior, if I pissed anyone off, along with me being one of the top 100 users! :D. Okay i'll stop bragging now. I just felt like having a moment of power there. Okay I now bow down to zee spiders for making me populah! (Well not really..). Okay zee topic can be closed now. Everything is fine and dandy!

Rich 12-16-2005 07:50 AM

Lesson of the day: Robots don't have eyes. *closed*