What's Yahoo Spider?

[trish]

I see it listed three times in Who's On.

[racer2c]

Someone did a search on Yahoo and their 'engine' sends 'spiders' across the net to find a match.

[dando]

I see it listed three times in Who's On.
Search engines send out spiders (aka: crawlers) to index sites and pages. The spiders usually run during non-peak early AM hours. Here are some links explaining this and how search engines work in general:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/spider.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_spider

-Kevin

[trish]

Cool! Thanks for the information.