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Spiders? Eek!?
« on: January 27, 2019, 10:40:50 pm »

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I got questions for this, and I hope they are simple to discuss;

What does spiders mean on this forum?
Here's what I'm certain about:
They're not:
- People from your blocked users list (I haven't blocked anyone on this forum)
- Guests

*making a "Hmmm..." face*

What do you guys think they are? Why are they called spiders? Eek! o_o

... Just curious.
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Re: Spiders? Eek!?
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2019, 10:51:47 pm »
In short, they are bots [Google, Google (AdSense), Baidu].


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Re: Spiders? Eek!?
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2019, 11:01:38 pm »
In short, they are bots [Google, Google (AdSense), Baidu].
That's nice... how did I not see this.... But still, why are they called spiders for that? *hmmm*
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Re: Spiders? Eek!?
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2019, 11:47:23 pm »
The 'spiders' are web crawling bots that 'crawl' through (or browse) the web, usually for the purpose of indexing.

If you look at the language used, you'll often see the terms 'world wide web' and 'crawler bot'. That usually conjures up the image of 'spider' in a person's mind, as they tend to crawl on webs.

Web crawlers also visit many sites at the same time, so if you think about it, their 'legs' are positioned over many strands of the 'web', like a spider, so to speak.

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Re: Spiders? Eek!?
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2019, 12:29:51 am »
basically what lucius said


it's just a goofy way to explain bots perusing your everything and internally cataloging stuff.

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Re: Spiders? Eek!?
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2019, 07:17:45 am »
Thanks Lucius, I find that interesting. :)
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Re: Spiders? Eek!?
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2019, 08:42:31 am »
Swat 'em with a newspaper.

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Re: Spiders? Eek!?
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2019, 01:56:12 pm »
If you're curious as to where these "spiders" belong to, they're displayed at the end of the "Users active in the past 30 minutes" list. So, in your example case, that'd be 13 from Baidu, 6 from Google and another 5 from Google's AdSense.

That is all I to say about them, really. They're just there, but they don't really impact the site much.
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Re: Spiders? Eek!?
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2019, 02:38:03 pm »

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Re: Spiders? Eek!?
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2019, 11:52:07 pm »
Just your friendly neighborhood spiders !