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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?
10-29-2005 04:00 AM
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http://e-comm.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/s/spider.html
10-29-2005 04:06 AM
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oh ok how do you make/get spiders?
10-29-2005 04:11 AM
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Err... why would you want your own web spider unless you were a search engine? :p
10-29-2005 04:17 AM
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ahaha i just might have a search engine ;) so to answer my question where do you go to get one? :D

oh and u no these spiders how come they print off things dont they just transmitt the page back to the database?
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ahaha i just might have a search engine ;) so to answer my question where do you go to get one? :D
I dunno. Most search engines use their own proprietary software.
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oh and u no these spiders how come they print off things dont they just transmitt the page back to the database?
Well, they follow links, including the links that say "View a Printable Version." They're not actually printing anything, but rather just downloading pages.
10-29-2005 04:25 AM
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oh ok then well thanks for the help :)
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