I know this is a silly question but this cat is not going to be satisfied untill I get an answer.

On the bottom of the main page thier are who's on-line and such like but what are spiders ?
I cannot stand spiders at all.

Spiders are employed by companies such as Google and Yahoo to reap the information contained on web pages and they add the information they reap to their catalogues of information. That is why it is prudent not to use your real name on sites such as Susan's as it's pretty hard to be anonymous on the web.

Click on the heading for that section and you will get a detailed view of what each one of the spiders is looking at.

Steph

Steph is correct about what she said. But more specifically, a spider is a program, like your web browser, that is given a set of instructions telling it to seek out certain types of information, which is then aggregated for a specific use (e.g. seeking and indexing only websites that pertain to psychology). Search engines use spiders to collect information about web pages so that they may be searched quickly. Another kind of spider might be used to locate only certain types of documents, or documents that contain certain types of information, for more specialized use. But generally you can think of a spider as a program whose job is to index disparate information on the world wide web (www) OR to validate the information collected by an indexing spider.

And as Steph pointed out, because this method of indexing information is so effective, and as you can see from the amount of spiders that "read" this site alone, once information gets indexed, it is nearly impossible to get it out of the public record. In fact there are projects such as the "waybackmachine" at archive.org that even store various versions of websites in various states throughout time. One of my first creative websites (that doesn't even exist at all anymore) is archived as far back as 1998, with a dozen or so snapshots of it throughout every year through 2004.

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

So it is definitely worth considering what you put online that can easily be traced back to you, and as has been pointed out in other posts, this isn't just your name, but maybe a unique catchphrase that not many people use, and the like.

Hope this helps. And by the by, I hate spiders (the arachnid kind) too!

I am lost for words.
Its quite sureal something out of the matrix or like.
Wow is all I can think of 

Hi Lolli;


what are spiders?



...and you are talking about


the spiders which are at the bottom of the screen


you said?


Oh...those kinds of spiders, they are programs.



tinkerbell


P.S.  I hope you don't mind my rather dark sense of humor.

Quote from: lolli on November 07, 2006, 02:55:03 PM
I am lost for words.
Its quite sureal something out of the matrix or like.
Wow is all I can think of 

Out of the matrix?  It's the other way around my dear.  We are literally cogs in the hardware matrix.  Welcome to the machine!

Cindi

Thanks Tink, just remember spiders eat butterflys!!!

when you have lain in bed and felt something walking upon the sheet towards you, you will know full well my overwhelming fear of big hairy spiders.

yours are the one nip and ur dead ones.

How on earth did you find them.

That animation you have of the baby rolling around could you tell me how to load it please.

Posted on: November 08, 2006, 05:07:20 PM

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A friend of mine runs a webb site that is used world wide.

How would he go about finding if his site has spiders ?

The site was recently hacked into and copies of everyones pictures taken.
He banned the persons responsible but the site is a mess now!!!

How do you like your new babies, my friend?

they are sooooo cute!!!  I have more just in case...

BTW...your new avatar....what is that? I like it.   In my opinion, it is a combination of feelings, fear, sadness, ugliness, beauty, love, desperation ....just my weird thoughts...

tinkerbell