Are all these spiders slowing down the forum? Or is it must my PC? I just noticed it takes longer for threads to come up over the last 2-3 weeks since we've had the crawly ones visiting.....................:rolleyes:
And I thought I read somewhere that they are supposed to be limited to 4 at a time......

What are those things? lol, I always see them as "on" and I don't understand the purpose..

Spiders are bots that collect the website's text on any visible thread or page to make it available on the search engine's databse to be found on specific keyword searches or random searching.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/webcrawler/

Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Thanks Lisa for not making me ask that very same question! I am now enlightened to the meaning of the spiderz!