MSNbot Spider?

[Johnny Pneumatic]

I was looking at who was online and several "MSNbot Spiders" showed on the list. What the hell are those?

[Goliath]

Don't worry, they aren't poisonous. Now those Yahoo! Slurp Spiders, on the other hand.....

:D Just kidding. The MSNbot Spiders are bots (in this case, bots for MSN) that are scanning the pages here for archiving in search engines.

[livius drusus]

Yup. What he said. Tons of search engines send out bots to crawl and index sites. We've got it configured to recognize something like 70 different search engines and to tag them in Who's Online. Other vB boards just use the generic "guest" designation even for spiders.

[dave_a]

Yup. What he said. Tons of search engines send out bots to crawl and index sites. We've got it configured to recognize something like 70 different search engines and to tag them in Who's Online. Other vB boards just use the generic "guest" designation even for spiders.

Eons ago there was a thread started by either yourself of VM where you were asking of the members here if we wanted a private forum, free of the spying eyes of the terminator 2000 search and destroy bots.

Anything come of that?

I really detest search bots.

[livius drusus]

I bumped it (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=24466#post24466), dantonac.