Purpose of spiders? - Acura Forum

*RPhilMan1* · 10-10-06, 01:24 AM

I'm just curious at what the purpose of "spiders" are. I noticed there are 35 spiders currently on the site.

**JoNnErD154** · 10-10-06, 01:51 AM

Spiders are the bots that Yahoo, Google, AskJeeves, etc run to scour the internet for content to index for their search engines. We have modified our vBulletin installation to list them as spiders in the Who's Online area just so that we can see them separately - normally they would be clumped in with the guests.

*RPhilMan1* · 10-10-06, 02:01 AM

Ah, interesting. Do we benefit from them in any way?

**JoNnErD154** · 10-10-06, 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RPhilMan1

Ah, interesting. Do we benefit from them in any way?

Yeah, without them we wouldn't be listed on any search engines.

I work to attract them, and to optimize our site to help them find what they want.

*RPhilMan1* · 10-10-06, 11:51 AM

That's cool.

It's like a partnership.

Ivan The Terrible · 10-11-06, 06:24 PM

but how come sometimes there are multiple spiders from the same search engine?

Throtex · 10-11-06, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ILuvBoobies

but how come sometimes there are multiple spiders from the same search engine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_programming

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RPhilMan1 ATC Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Daytona Beach, FL Age: 21 Posts: 5,425 Your Mood: Car 1: '04 TSX	Purpose of spiders? I'm just curious at what the purpose of "spiders" are. I noticed there are 35 spiders currently on the site. __________________ Pics/Mods

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JoNnErD154 Nerd / Mod / Admin Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Belmont, CA / Colorado Springs, CO / Tahoe City, CA Age: 21 Posts: 7,302 Your Mood: Car 1: '04 Acura TSX	Spiders are the bots that Yahoo, Google, AskJeeves, etc run to scour the internet for content to index for their search engines. We have modified our vBulletin installation to list them as spiders in the Who's Online area just so that we can see them separately - normally they would be clumped in with the guests. __________________ »2004 Acura TSX 6MT w/Nav --Click Here for mods 193.939 WHP 166.16 WTQ

10-10-06, 02:01 AM	#3 (permalink)
RPhilMan1 ATC Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Daytona Beach, FL Age: 21 Posts: 5,425 Your Mood: Car 1: '04 TSX	Ah, interesting. Do we benefit from them in any way? __________________ Pics/Mods

10-10-06, 11:51 AM	#5 (permalink)
RPhilMan1 ATC Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Daytona Beach, FL Age: 21 Posts: 5,425 Your Mood: Car 1: '04 TSX	That's cool. It's like a partnership. __________________ Pics/Mods

10-11-06, 06:24 PM	#6 (permalink)
Ivan The Terrible I prefer the Deep South.. Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Miami, FL Age: 30 Posts: 26,869 Your Mood: Car 1: 97 3.0 CL	but how come sometimes there are multiple spiders from the same search engine? __________________ http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9...ar100742hg.gif

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