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Google Spider?
« on: September 17, 2005, 02:35:16 pm »
color me stupid, or atleast uninformed, but what is google spider and why is it listed as a user 3 or 4 times under "Who\'s Online"
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Google Spider?
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2005, 03:41:44 pm »
http://www.google.com/ads/glossary.html#basics

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Spider. A program that automatically fetches web pages and feeds them to search engines. (It\'s called a "spider" because it crawls around the web.) Because most web pages contain links to and from other pages, a spider can start almost anywhere. As soon as it recognizes a link to another page, it goes off and fetches it. Large search engines have many spiders working simultaneously. Also known as a crawler.