what's that all about? when you go to see whos online

[Anne & Gang]

if you go far enough you will see a bunch of guests are online then weird stuff like Yahoo slurp spider and Msn Spy bot!!! weird...are those spammers ??-

 

[rikkitikki]

nope, it's Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc. They have funny names (spider bot, whatever), but they're just skipping to different sites to see what's on them so that way when someone does a search say for something like "eclectus cages," it will know what to bring up, and the more often someone clicks on the links, the closer it will be to the top of page 1 on the search!

 

[rikkitikki]

This might be a better explanation: What is a Spider, Bot, Crawler - Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp, and MSNbot

 

[Budgiebonkers]

I always wondered that to.

 

[Birdiemarie]

Thanks Erika. Interesting read.

 

[Anne & Gang]

really....shows you how computer illiterate I am...