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GearHd6
Apr 02, 2008, 05:28 PM
What the heck is it? I see them logged on as guests. I havent a clue what they are but someone must.
ewelin
Apr 02, 2008, 06:03 PM
Search Engine Spider. All of the major Search engines send out these programs called spiders. The spiders basically scan sites for information for searches you and I make when we visit their site. They're also known as web crawlers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
GearHd6
Apr 02, 2008, 06:11 PM
Oh cool, so they're actually a good thing then. Nice!
Tynan19
Apr 02, 2008, 08:51 PM
Yep. Chesuncook, Chamberlain, Eagle Lake, NE Carry, Golden Road.
attroll
Apr 03, 2008, 12:11 AM
The spiders actually scan the site and pull information from it so when you do a search on yahoo for something like "Chesuncook Trains" it will show up in the listing somewhere down the list if they found information on that on our web site.
Tynan19
Apr 03, 2008, 08:37 AM
That is why I put those names in my post.