Posted by: underdog
question - 09/25/10 04:24 PM
What is a spider and how come when I look to see how many registered people are on line, it could say "0" even if I am on line and I'm registered?
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Posted by: Shi Ronglang
Re: question - 09/25/10 07:05 PM
I assume the spiders to be so-called "bots", automated programs that browse the internet for various purposes (members, lurkers and "bots" are listed in that order in several other forum boards I know,).
As for the second question, I was wondering too. Sometimes I appear in the list, sometimes not... Go figure.
As for the second question, I was wondering too. Sometimes I appear in the list, sometimes not... Go figure.
Posted by: Mark Jordan
Re: question - 09/27/10 02:58 AM
A spider is nothing more than a computer program that follows certain links on the web and gathers information and creates a copy of all the visited pages. This will index the downloaded pages so that it will show up quickly in the SERPs (search engine results page). I don't think it can detect the # of people online tho.