Can anyone expain

[G-man]

Been noticeing these lately and seem a little weird. Is this some sort of tracking by someone?<TABLE class=tborder id=woltable cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=6 width="100%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=alt1 width="35%">Yahoo! Slurp Spider </TD><TD class=alt2 width="35%">Viewing User Profile
</TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap align=middle></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt1 width="35%">02:15 PM MSNBot Spider </TD><TD class=alt2 width="35%">Viewing Member List
</TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap align=middle></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt1 width="35%">02:28 PM Google Spider </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Maybe big brother!!!!!!!

[Pantomimehorse]

a guess would be its some way to get hits in search engines?

[Robusto]

Believe that is correct tho Deano will confirm.

[G-man]

Thank U both.Bryan ,Paul has a little somein,somein I sent. Well a Big somein,somein.LOL English gangster U.LOL Enjoy

[Mr Omneo]

The short answer is they are Spiders.
The long answer is too long and boring to explain here.

the slightly longer answer is the 'big' search engines send out spiders to crawl the internet so that they have an accurate record of what is out there. forums tend to be visited fairly often because search engines like to visit places that have new content and as forums usually have a lot of posts each day, the spiders make a note and come back for more.

The advantage to a forum is it is likely to rank higher in teh search engines and people doping a search will find it because it's nearer the top of the pile :)

[TJCoro]

Well said, senor Om-Neo,

Best explaination on:spider: "spiders" I read to date.

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