spider?

[goku]

not sure where to put this question:
what are all the spiders in the Who's On Line menu?

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by goku

not sure where to put this question:
what are all the spiders in the Who's On Line menu?

Search engine spiders. They are basically computer programs that surf the web automatically as they build an index of content for the search engines. See how search engines work here too.

[goku]

thanks
i'm guessing the engines only search the titles of threads?

[C1ay]

Originally Posted by goku

thanks
i'm guessing the engines only search the titles of threads?

No. They try to follow every hyperlink on each page and index all of the content on every page they find.