What Are Spiders?

[JrDude]

I was just looking at the "Who's Online" list, and at the bottom, after it showed what the Guests' were doing, it showed "Spiders." 2 Yahoo Spiders and a Google Spider.
So what are these "Spiders"?

[Macawmoses]

Spiders are things sites like Google use to crawl the web, they archive things, and what not, as well as help determine your ranking on their respective sites.

[JrDude]

Spiders are things sites like Google use to crawl the web, they archive things, and what not, as well as help determine your ranking on their respective sites.

..?
So some computer thing is crawling around the site and deciding where to put the site on the list if you type something on their search bar?

[Macawmoses]

Spiders are things sites like Google use to crawl the web, they archive things, and what not, as well as help determine your ranking on their respective sites.

..?
So some computer thing is crawling around the site and deciding where to put the site on the list if you type something on their search bar?

That is one of many features. It archives, that is what it does.

Here, this may help.

[JrDude]

Spiders are things sites like Google use to crawl the web, they archive things, and what not, as well as help determine your ranking on their respective sites.

..?
So some computer thing is crawling around the site and deciding where to put the site on the list if you type something on their search bar?

That is one of many features. It archives, that is what it does.

Here, this may help.

Awsome, thanks.