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Can someone tell me what is meant by "spiders"on line?
Ken A.
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If you use a search engine like google etc they send out their spiders to search the web and index it.
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Sorry that tells me nothing
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It may also be that they are scanning for email addresses so that they can send you spam. For that reason never publish your real (as against a temporary) email address on any forum.
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Sorry that tells me nothing When you search for something, for example "Morgan" all those results stem from information gathered by programs that search the web and categorise the web pages, The programs need to view each web page on a site and leave a trace when they access the pages. These are logged by the system as spiders, another name would be robots.
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Sorry still not sure what this means. On the TM page in the box "who's online it says 50 spiders. Are you saying there are 50 sites tracking me, and you?
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No they are not exactly tracking us. They are searching for relevant nouns and phrases in the topics, in this case, or other items that peple may search for. They don't always get it right but most of the time you find what you are looking for because these "spiders" have found it and cataloged it for you.
For example Google "Morgan plus 4 radiator" and you get links to a lot of relevant web pages, including,fairly early in the list, a link to this forum.
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No - indexing the site so when you search for something it finds relevant answers.
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I just hope that they aren't Australian spiders......nasty creatures!
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Take it from another angle.
When you sit in front of your computer and want to find something you go to a "search engine" which is something like Google, Yahoo or others. You type in a word and it presents you with choices.
How do these search engines know all this ?
They have little "spiders" that run over all the web sites looking at them and indexing the content. If the content changes a lot (like it does here) then they realise this on the first few runs (notice the changes per visit) and so do it more often.
So a spider is a bit like a person sitting at a keyboard and reading and taking notes on the entire site page by page. This is added to the guide for when someone searches for key words like Morgan.
TM is a busy site and so becomes more important as it is so focused on Morgan and so it gets many spiders indexing it.
Any good ?
Everyone loves a Morgan. Even me, unless it's broken again.
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