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Bots by Discrate on 10-29-2005 at 04:00 AM
you know how you can go to whos online the complete list well theres guests looking at posts and printing them off and in front of them the have either the yahoo sighn msn or google and they are called like msn bot what are they and what do they do?
RE: Bots by WDZ on 10-29-2005 at 04:06 AM
http://e-comm.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/s/spider.html
RE: Bots by Discrate on 10-29-2005 at 04:11 AM
oh ok how do you make/get spiders?
RE: Bots by WDZ on 10-29-2005 at 04:17 AM
Err... why would you want your own web spider unless you were a search engine? 
RE: Bots by Discrate on 10-29-2005 at 04:17 AM
ahaha i just might have a search engine 
so to answer my question where do you go to get one? 
oh and u no these spiders how come they print off things dont they just transmitt the page back to the database?
RE: Bots by WDZ on 10-29-2005 at 04:25 AM
quote:I dunno. Most search engines use their own proprietary software.
Originally posted by joelm
ahaha i just might have a search engine
quote:Well, they follow links, including the links that say "View a Printable Version." They're not actually printing anything, but rather just downloading pages.
oh and u no these spiders how come they print off things dont they just transmitt the page back to the database?
RE: Bots by Discrate on 10-29-2005 at 04:26 AM
oh ok then well thanks for the help 