Slurp?

[Stevieboy]

WTF is a Yahoo! Slurp Spider? A spam bot or something? It's listed in the currently active users section!?!?

[larrysputnik]

Been wondering that myself.

[Mr Moore]

I HAVE ASKED THIS ON LIVE CHAT 3 TIMES, i was thinking no one else could see them.

[cj121]

I can't even see that

[Stevieboy]

CLICK It's 9:35am and there's a Google Spider there just now. Data harvesting mebbe??

[TJCoro]

Mr. Administrator?

WTF is a Yahoo! Slurp Spider? A spam bot or something? It's listed in the currently active users section!?!?

Now I'm getting a little curious about this bugger.

Mr. UKCF Administrator, any idea what's up with the Slurp Spider?

Gracias senor,

[Deano]

Both are 'bots' or 'spiders' that crawl the site and extract information from each page for a search engine index. This is then utilised when you do a search. They're welcome here because it gives us more chance of getting a decent hit from someone who searchs for a relevent search term on a search engine. It's how we get new members.

[cj121]

CLICK It's 9:35am and there's a Google Spider there just now. Data harvesting mebbe??

Aah, nice one Stevie, I'll keep an eye out from time to time. Cheers.