spiders ?

[lolive]

Hi everybody

i know what members & guests are ... on a forum
but, what is a spider ?
merci

Olivier

[saltman]

a spider is a program that searches the web for information to propagate search sites such as google, bing, yahoo, etc.

Only certain pages here are viewable by spiders. ( at least the ones that obey robots.txt and login/pass rights ) Technobabble for instance.

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

[lolive]

merci Jo

obvious :duh:

on my french forum,they are called "robots"

[dcbullet]

robot is a better term.

[uninvited94]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4XanKGvr3w

[U2Lynne]

Changed to show both terms.

[lolive]

great improvement :cool:

[J.R. Ewing]

when i first learnt HTML they were called "Robots".
how nostalgic to see the term return to favor.