Spiders

[Tom Dunlap]

At the bottom of the main page I noticed this:

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When I went to see who the 203 quests were I found that most of them were "Yahoo Slurp Spiders" What the heck are they!? What do they live on? Is there a repellant or poison? Do they carry diseases?

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

When I went to see who the 203 quests were I found that most of them were "Yahoo Slurp Spiders" What the heck are they!? What do they live on? Is there a repellant or poison? Do they carry diseases?

These are the "bots" that look for links on a page and where they go, what they do and what is there. They "slurp up" the content of the page to improve searches and guage the conectivity, mapping out what goes where and how often.

You may have seen these line graphs of the web that displays the nodalnetwork in 2D?