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Commissioner  Joined: Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:48 pm Posts: 12684 Location: Crystal, MN 
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 Yahoo bot or somethingI saw this Yahoo thing as a user on our board. What is it? What is it's purpose. It doesn't scare me or anything, but I am curious.
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| Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:08 pm |
  
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Starship Commander  Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 5:08 am Posts: 11216 Location: Cestus III
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Re: Yahoo bot or something PurpleMustReign wrote: I saw this Yahoo thing as a user on our board. What is it? What is it's purpose. It doesn't scare me or anything, but I am curious. It's a web spider or crawler. Yahoo, MSN bot, Google bot, and Inktomi Slurp are just a few. They send them out and they crawl the web gathering information. That's why when you type in a search for something it shows up in your search engine. The bots basically gather and index the information. This link also helps explain it. http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/webcrawler/slurp-01.html _________________ Mike 
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| Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:00 pm |
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Bartender/Retired  Joined: Sun Apr 06, 2003 4:15 pm Posts: 9381 Location: Minnesota
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Re: Yahoo bot or something PurpleMustReign wrote: I saw this Yahoo thing as a user on our board. What is it? What is it's purpose. It doesn't scare me or anything, but I am curious. The new board here shows these things, the old one didn't. I asked the same question privately a while ago... I don't blame you for being curious. I guess they're safe little things, but I wouldn't want them crawling around my house.  |
| Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:47 pm |
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Commissioner Joined: Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:48 pm Posts: 12684 Location: Crystal, MN
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Re: Yahoo bot or something John wrote: PurpleMustReign wrote: I saw this Yahoo thing as a user on our board. What is it? What is it's purpose. It doesn't scare me or anything, but I am curious. The new board here shows these things, the old one didn't. I asked the same question privately a while ago... I don't blame you for being curious. I guess they're safe little things, but I wouldn't want them crawling around my house. That all depends... can they work a vacuum??  _________________ Purple Pride till I die! |
| Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:44 am |
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