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  • slurp spiders

    I'm seeing 13 slurp spiders OL now. Do they have full access to the board and all posts?

  • #2
    Forgive my ignorance, but what on earth is a slurp spider?

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    • #3
      My (albeit limited) understanding is that they are sent from search engines to surf sites. They use the info they get when deciding relevance in a search using their engine.

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      • #4
        How does one SEE them???

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        • #5
          Generically speaking, a spider is an automated search engine program that surfs and sorts the links on the world wide web for their search engine. As far as I know, a slurp spider is one that is specifically from Yahoo. Typically, they show up as visitors, but obviously not as a logged in user. You can also get clues for them if you have access to the IP traffic logs.

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          • #6
            you can click the thing on the main index that says how many people are on and it will list them..including tons of slurps plus msn bots...I assume there are google ones too, but not on the first 5 pages...and I am too lazy to look for em.

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            • #7
              Wow! We are being watched as it were!

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